"I am discouraged, gloomy and pessimistic," said Dr. William T. Hornaday last week. It was not what he said nor the way he said it, but the reasons which he gave for his feelings that made the Biological Survey of the Department of Agriculture sputter with indignation.
Dr. Hornaday has himself been in Government employ. In 1874, he began to serve Henry A. Ward of Rochester, as a naturalist. A couple of years later, he went around the world gathering rare specimens of animal life. When he got back, he founded the Society of American...
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