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The United States National Museum, is given first choice of all 

 specimens that die in the Zoo. If they are not desired for the 

 Museum they are then made available to other institutions or scien- 

 tific workers. Thus the value of the specimen continues long after 

 it is dead. 



ACCESSIONS 



GIFTS AND DBIPOSITS 



The Zoo has been particularly fortunate in having friends who have 

 showed their sincere interest by bringing in specimens, or arranging 

 for acquisitions from foreign countries. During the year, the follow- 

 ing have made valuable contributions to the collection : 



Lt. Col. Kobert Traub, Chief, Department of Entomology, Medical 

 Service Graduate School, Walter Eeed Army Medical Center, Wash- 

 ington, D. C, supplied animals from Malaya, Borneo, and Korea. 



Thomas McKnew, of the National Geographic Society, interested 

 Sir Gordon H. A, MacMillan of MacMillan, Governor and Com- 

 mander in Chief of Gibraltar, in presenting two Barbary apes. 



Dr. Robert E. Kuntz, of the United States Naval JNIedical Research 

 Unit No. 3, Cairo, Egypt, and George Malakatis, gave reptiles that 

 they had obtained in Egypt. 



Dr. Donald J. Pletsch, of the World Health Organization at Taipeh, 

 Taiwan, sent a fine, tame civet {Pagimia larvata taviana), a form 

 found only on the island of Formosa. This was the first of its kind 

 exhibited in the Zoo. 



Dr. Egberto Garcia S., Director of the Department of Public Health 

 of Ecuador, sent two large Galapagos turtles. 



The Honorable Carlton Skinner, Governor of Guam, gave three 

 East Indian monitor lizards. 



Forest Bartl, of Edgewater, Md., presented a specimen of the 

 beautiful eclectus parrot, a native of the Papuan Islands and rare in 

 collections. 



Mrs. Helen B. Irwin, Washington, D. C, gave a beautiful sulphur- 

 crested cockatoo. 



Paul M. Menendez and Bernard F. Salb, both of Washington, D. C, 

 each presented a white-armed marmoset. 



The National Institutes of Health deposited a chimpanzee. 



The Round Table Kennels, of Middletown, Del., presented 12 young 

 blue peafowl. 



Dorothy Schenck, Willimantic, Conn., gave a ball python. 



The United States Fish and Wildlife Service, through various mem- 

 bers of its staff, continued to assist during the year in maintaining 

 an interesting collection. 



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