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courts was sent to the Zoo for the animals. This consisted of 60 

 cartons of large prunes and 237 bags of green split peas. 



From the District of Columbia Health Department 70 crates of 

 ear corn were received. Other contributions were : 



600 pounds of candy from the Harris Candy & Specialty Co. 



28 cartons of grape-nuts flakes from the Mazo-Lerch Co. 



26 cartons of Italian tunafish from Chicken-of-the-Sea, Inc. 



100 pounds of sunflower seed from General Services Administration. 



The National Institutes of Health, the Navy Medical Center, the 

 Army Medical Center, Animal Farm Unit, Camp Detrick, and the 

 Nutritional Laboratory of the Department of Agriculture gave the 

 Zoo mice, rats, guinea pigs, rabbits, and other animals no longer suit- 

 able for their purposes. 



The Poultry Division of the Department of Agriculture gave a 

 considerable number of day-old chicks that were hatched in con- 

 nection with certain of their experiments. 



The practice has been continued of picking up from grocery stores 

 in the vicinity of the Zoo quantities of discarded green material such 

 as beet tops, celery stalks, and the outer leaves of cabbage, cauliflower, 

 and lettuce, and some fruit. This provides an abundance of greens 

 for the animals and helps reduce purchase of such foods. 



In a few instances such materials as rice, flour, and beans, unaccept- 

 able for human use, have been purchased at low prices from General 

 Services Administration or commercial firms. 



ROCK CREEK-POTOMAC PARKWAY 



The proposed northward extension of the Rock Creek-Potomac 

 Parkway through the Zoo on the east side of the creek by a bridge 

 near the location of the lower ford, a tunnel through the hill on which 

 the office is located, and the construction of the roadway northward 

 from the tunnel between the creek and Adams Mill Road will bring 

 about a serious condition for the Zoo. The following changes will 

 be necessary before the highway project can be begun: (1) A fence 

 must be constructed on the west side of the creek to connect the south- 

 ern boundary with the northern boundary, so that the Zoo can at all 

 times be properly enclosed. (2) Parking spaces must be developed 

 on Zoo ground to make up as far as is possible for the loss of parking 

 spaces on the east side of the creek that now accommodate 55 buses 

 and 230 cars. (3) New paddocks must be constructed to replace those 

 that will be eliminated by the construction of the new parking lot. 

 (4) An office building for the administration of the Zoo should be 

 constructed on the Zoo's grounds at a convenient location. (5) The 

 coal bunker for the central heating plant must be enlarged. 



