A PUBLIC MENACE An attempt to name the animal most useful to man would give rise to
considerable discussion, but there is no doubt as to the one most inimical to the human race …

NOTWITHSTANDING many shortcomings mice have contributed much to the advancement
of science and the service of mankind. To realize this we have but to recall that it was by …

The destruction of Rats Iind a direct interest for tlie ZoologicaI Society, ah tlie nbrintlarit
siipplp of food arid slieiter in tlie Zoological Galdelis riot only maintained R hige indigerions …

When a rat colony was first started at the Medical College of Virginia, we were greatly
handicapped by the lack of a satisfactory manual on the care of rats. The excellent …

(.(. The proper study of mankind," wrote Alexander Pope," is man."-He might equally have
said that, a very proper study of man is mankind, conSidering mankind as a population …

While there is no end to the making of books about birds, it is a little surprising that the
mammals, surely the most important class of all, should be, in comparison, rather poorly …

Abstract Dr. CUMPSTON, Director of Quarantine, Commonwealth of Australia, tells us in a
preface that it was considered desirable to have a short description of the principal species …