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Maryland, and Virginia cars come to the Zoo to bring guests from 

 other States. The tabulation for the fiscal year 1955 is as follows : 



Percent Percent 



Maryland 27.3 Obio 1.6 



Virginia — __ 22.7 West Virginia 1.2 



District of Columbia ; 21.5 Massacbusetts 1.1 



Pennsylvania 4.6 Florida 0.9 



New York 2.7 Illinois 0.7 



North Carolina 2.1 California 0.7 



New Jersey 1.7 South Carolina 0.6 



The cars that made up the remaining 10.6 percent came from every 

 one of the remaining States, as well as from Alaska, Austria, British 

 Columbia, Canada, Canal Zone, Cuba, England, Germany, Hawaii, 

 Japan, Newfoundland, Nova Scotia, Okinawa, and Puerto Rico. 



On the days of even small attendance there are cars parked in the 

 Zoo from at least 15 States, Territories, the District of Columbia, and 

 foreign countries. On average days there are cars from about 22 

 States, Territories, the District of Columbia, and foreign countries; 

 and during the periods of greatest attendance the cars represent not 

 less than 34 different States, Territories, and countries. 



COOPERATION 



At all times special efforts are made to maintain friendly contacts 

 with other Government and State agencies, private concerns and indi- 

 viduals, and scientific workers for mutual assistance. As a result the 

 Zoo receives much help and advice and many valuable specimens, and 

 in turn it furnishes information and, whenever possible, specimens it 

 does not need. 



Particular thanks are due C. W. Phillips, Paul R. Achenbach, and 

 R. S. Dill, of the National Bureau of Standards, for their advice and 

 assistance in bringing about the best possible conditions in the refrig- 

 erated penguin room. 



Dr. Willard H. Eyestone, veterinary pathologist of the Cancer Divi- 

 sion of the National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Md., gave much 

 valuable advice on matters pertaining to the welfare of the animals, 

 and made every effort to help save the emperor penguins. He and 

 other members of the National Institutes of Health isolated the organ- 

 ism Aspergillus and established pure cultures of it, and are now trying 

 to find a chemical or bacterial agent to combat the fungus. 



Dr. Eyestone also continued his own project of making autopsies 

 on animals that died in the Zoo, in order to obtain information re- 

 garding cancer and other diseases affecting human beings. 



Special acknowledgment is due to the United States Dispatch 

 Agent in New York City, Howard Fyfe, an officer of the State De- 



