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Title: Wild life conservation in theory and practice; lectures delivered before the Forest School of Yale University, 1914
Year: 1914 (1910s)
Authors: Hornaday, William T. (William Temple), 1854-1937 Walcott, Frederic Collin, 1869-1949
Subjects: Game protection
Publisher: New Haven, Yale University Press (etc., etc.)
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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freedom theylong for, or confine his efforts to only such varietiesas may be liberated, or raised in a state of semi-domestication. The zoological societies should carry on experi-ments in propagation, where the results can becarefully tabulated and made available for thepublic. Wherever anyone feels disposed to maintain aprivate aviary and permit the public to view the col-lection upon stated occasions, it becomes an impor-tant adjunct to the education of the public. Thismethod has been initiated with conspicuous gener-osity and success by Mrs. Frederic Ferris Thomp-son with her extensive aviary at her country home,Sonneberg, in the suburbs of Canandaigua, NewYork. The tendency even in the zoological parks is, orshould be, to get away as far as possible from arti-ficial conditions of life, by building large flyingcages, large runways for the animals, and letting asmany species as possible fly or roam at large withinthe main enclosures. The zoological societies of this country should
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