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from the obnoxious Mas. The wider the application 

 of the remedy, the greater will be its success. 



PATHOLOGY AT THE ZOO :— In the report of 

 the Zoological Society issued in 1904 there appeared a 

 resolution of the Council to appoint a Pathologist, on 

 the grounds that it would be " in the interests of the 

 " animals to make provision for a trained Pathologist, 

 '* whose dut}'' should be to study the cause of death, 

 " not only by ordinary post 77iortem examination, but 

 '* by the use of the microscope and bacteriological 

 *' methods, and to point out not only the cause of 

 *' death but also how such deaths might in future be 

 "avoided." This resolution was arrived at after long 

 deliberation on the part of a Special Committee, 

 which, after taking advice in various directions, saw 

 that their proposed course was eminenth^ more 

 adapted to the economics of animal culture "than the 

 haphazard method of mereh" treating symptoms in 

 sick animals on the principle largely of guess work. 



There is no doubt whatever that this wise policy 

 on the part of the Council marked the commencement 

 of a new era in the history of the Gardens of the very 

 greatest importance — not only to the keepers of birds 

 and other animals alike, but also incidentally to man 

 himself, as will be presently seen. It involves the 

 principle I have always strenuously fought for — the 

 actual identification of diseases, and the following of 

 them up not only to their immediate, but also their 

 remote causes, and secondly to the probable discovery 

 and adoption of really adequate remedies. 



One of the first fruits was the widening adoption 

 of the open-air lodging of birds in the case of many 



