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IN his presidential address to Section D, Prof. A. C. Hardy stresses the importance of zoological field studies. Ecology, by developing quantitative and experimental methods, is converting natural history into science. Its aim is not simply to express the inter-relationships of organisms with their environment in numerical terms—in itself a tedious refinement—but from such analysis to discover more of the laws operating in animate Nature.
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Zoology Outside the Laboratory. Nature 164, 389–390 (1949). https://doi.org/10.1038/164389a0
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