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extensive repairs are undertaken immediately, the building be con- 

 demned as unsafe. 



A hospital, which will also serve as a fireproof receiving station 

 for animals shipped in, for quarantining them when necessary and 

 with facilities for caring for those in ill health. This building should 

 also contain an office and laboratory for the veterinarian. There is 

 no structure within the National Zoological Park suitable for conver- 

 sion into an animal hospital. The building now in use is an ancient 

 stone building, formerly used as a hay barn and storage shed, which 

 was hastily cleaned out and sketchily furnished at the time the vet- 

 erinarian was appointed in 1955. 



Enclosures. — Enclosures and pools for beavers, otters, seals, and 

 nutrias, which cannot be adequately cared for or exhibited under 

 existing conditions. 



New paddocks for the exhibition of such animals as deer, sheep, 

 goats, and other hoofed animals, to provide for the exhibition of a 

 greater assortment of these attractive and valuable animals. 



Installations. — Extensive remodeling of some of the buildings is 

 needed to bring them up to date with the latest techniques of zoologi- 

 cal exhibits, making them more pleasing esthetically for the visitors 

 and ecologically for the animals. 



Respectfully submitted. 



Theodore H. Reed, Acting Director. 



Dr. Leonard Carmichael, 



Secretary, Smithsonian Institution. 



