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the result of their being abandoned by their mothers during in- 

 clement weather. 



The usual number of gifts of small animals, especially mon- 

 keys, were received during the year, which on examination were 

 found quite unfit for exhibition purposes and consequently were 

 treated to painless death. For instance, of the ten marmosets 

 which died or were destroyed during the year, eight were found 

 on arrival to be suffering from pneumonia, enteritis, rickets or 

 cage paralysis. The same conditions were present in a number 

 of sapajou monkeys deposited in the Park. 



Respectfully submitted, 



W. Reid Blair, D. V. S. 



