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Romer Calls for Science Merger

Biology and Zoology

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Convinced that closer cooperation between the Biology and Zoology departments would-open whole new fields of research. Professor Alfred S. Romer, director of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, urged such interaction in his annual report last week to Provest Buck.

Explaining his plan, Romer pointed out that "field study raises a variety of interesting problems, generally unknown to the laboratory biologists but worthy of cooperative pursuit into the laboratory."

"Museum workers," he continued, "are almost the only zoologists today who are familiar with lives and functions of animals in a state of nature," and he concluded, "this information should be utilized."

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