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done about the Park. General improvement work about the grounds, 

 including seeding, sodding, and planting of trees and shrubs, was 

 carried on as well as the continuance of eradication of poison ivy 

 in the sections of the Park most used by the public. 



Normal maintenance operations of the Park required all the mate- 

 rials and personnel that could be supplied under the regular appro- 

 priation, so almost no improvements were made under the regular 

 funds. Indeed, a great deal of finishing up work remains to be 

 done around the newly constructed buildings or in them but is 

 progressing very slowly because of lack of manpower and materials. 



A bookbinder assigned to the Smithsonian Institution by the 

 W. P. A. has bound, rebound, or repaired a considerable number of 

 publications in the Zoo branch of the Smithsonian Institution 

 library, resulting in a great improvement in the condition and use- 

 fulness of the library. 



The work of classifying and arranging in their proper places in 

 the library various publications of use in the Zoo has progressed 

 very satisfactorily through the arrangement whereby a member of 

 the Smithsonian Institution's regular library force comes to the 

 Zoo once a week and carries out this type of work. 



EXPEDITION 



The National Geographic Society-Smithsonian Institution East 

 Indies Expedition, which is financed by the National Geographic 

 Society to obtain animals for this Zoo, left Washington in two sec- 

 tions. Dr. William M. Mann, Director of the Park, Mrs. Mann, and 

 Dr. Maynard Owen Williams, chief of the foreign editorial staff 

 of the National Geographic, left Washington January 12 and sailed 

 from Vancouver, B. C, January 19 on the Empress of Asia for south- 

 ern Asiatic points. On February 9, Koy Jennier, assistant head 

 keeper, and Malcolm Davis, keeper, in the National Zoological Park, 

 left Washington with 28 animals (2 black bears, 2 pumas, 2 jaguars, 

 4 raccoons, 3 opossums, 10 alligators, and 5 hellbenders), sailed from 

 New York February 11 on the steamer Talisse and arrived at Bel- 

 awan-Deli, Sumatra, March 22, 1937, where Dr. Mann had previously 

 landed and had established headquarters for the expedition. The 

 American animals were intended for zoos in the Far East. At the 

 close of this fiscal year the expedition is still in the field, and it will 

 not return to Washington until late in September or October 1937. 

 Information as to the animal collection being assembled indicates a 

 satisfactory trip. 



NEEDS OF THE ZOO 



The remaining two most important structural needs of the Zoo 

 are a new antelope building and a new restaurant building. 



