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Institution seminar. He assisted T^HMAT^TV in taping a Zoo pro- 

 gram, which was broadcast on April 14, and advised PartJienon 

 Pictures of Hollywood on the Zoo section of a travel film they were 

 making of Washington, D.C. 



Dr. James F. Wriglit gave many illustrated talks on the use of the 

 projectile syringe in immobilizing or treating Avild animals. Among 

 the groups he addressed were the School of Veterinary Medicme, Uni- 

 versity of Pennsylvania ; the Zoo Veterinary Association of the Ameri- 

 can Veterinary Medical Association, meeting in Detroit, Mich.; the 

 Veterinaiy Pathology gToup of the Armed Forces Institute of 

 Pathology; Biological Society of Washington; Grayson Laboratory 

 personnel of the University of IMaryland. 



Sgt. Mar\an Jones, U.S. Army, now stationed at Fort Myer, made 

 a signal contribution to the history of the Zoo by reorganizing the 

 card catalog of mammals in the collection since 1888 and publishing 

 a mimeographed list giving the scientific name, common name, date 

 when each species was first exhibited, date of the first birth of a species 

 in the collection, and designating by an asterisk the animals still living 

 in the Zoo on June 30, 1962. 



Ordinarily the Zoo does not conduct guided tours of the Park, but 

 exceptions were made for three groups of handicapped children and 

 adults. jMrs. Perle Mesta and Miss Jane Russell sponsored the visit 

 on June 18 of 62 children from WAIF (World Adoption Inter- 

 national Foundation) . The occasion was the adoption of the 10,000th 

 child by American parents mider this foundation. 



On July 13, 1961, 1,842 foreign students from 50 different countries 

 toured the Zoo; on May 12, 1902, the school patrol, consisting of 

 6,336 students from all parts of the country, came to tlie Park follow- 

 ing their annual parade on Constitution Avenue. 



The Virginia Herpetological Society held its annual meeting in 

 the reptile house on August 11, 1961. The American Society of 

 Ichthyologists and Herpetologists, holding its 42d Annual Meeting 

 in Washington, came to the Zoo on Sunday morning, June 17, and 

 about 100 scientists were shown the reptile house before the regular 

 visiting hours. 



REPORT OF THE VETERINARIAN 



In the Annual Reports for 1960 and 1961 reference was made to 

 the similarity, both clinically and pathologically, of a central nervous 

 system syndrome occurring in monkeys at the Park to the "Acute 

 Amaurotic Epilepsy" described by Langdon and Cadwallader in 1915 

 and Van Bogaert and Scherer in 1935. Since the last Annual Report 

 four additional cases have been seen clinically in young monkeys, one 

 of which was euthanized for viral isolation studies, the others being 



