98 ANNUAL REPORT SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, 1949 
As in any colony of living things, there is a steady turn-over, so 
that the exhibits are constantly changing. Thus, the inventory list 
of specimens in the collection on June 30 of each year does not show all 
the kinds of animals that were exhibited during the year; sometimes 
creatures of outstanding interest at the time they were shown are no 
longer in the collection at the time the list is prepared. 
ACCESSIONS 
A great many interesting shipments have been received from abroad. 
The Navy Medical Research Unit No. 3 sent through Lt. Robert E. 
Kuntz a large collection of Egyptian reptiles, including a number of 
species that the Zoo has never had before. The Institute of Scientific 
Research, Madagascar, sent by air a group of leopard chameleons, 
some Zonosaurus lizards, and two Dumeril’s boas. The San Diego 
Zoological Society presented a beautiful specimen of the spectacled 
bear. The Army Medical Research Center Laboratory in Malaya 
sent through Maj. Robert Traub an interesting collection, including 
two striking bamboo rats and eight different species of tree rats, none 
of which had been exhibited heretofore. From the Zoological Society 
of London was received an extensive shipment, including 4 Chinese 
water deer, a kusimanse, some rare birds, and 2 of the rare Meller’s 
chameleons. 
Dr. Guillermo Mann of the University of Santiago, Santiago, Chile, 
sent specimens of Gay’s frog and the unusual Bibron’s ‘‘toad”’ frog, 
as well as three abrocomas, a rodent seldom seen in captivity. Pat 
Putnam sent from the Belgian Congo chameleons and francolins. 
Capt. John Miller of Panagra Airlines, Pert, shipped to the Zoo its 
first pair of the rare pigmy marmosets, smallest of all the monkeys. 
Among the outstanding receipts through purchases or exchanges 
were an African two-horned rhinoceros, a pair of wombats, a king 
cormorant, a trio of kelp geese, orang-utans and chimpanzees. The 
latter are to replace the stock that some years ago was destroyed by 
an epidemic. 
William T. Miller, after resigning from the Army, spent some time 
in Panamé and sent several shipments including a pigmy anteater 
and a great rufous motmot. Dr. A. Reventlow of the Zoological 
Garden at Copenhagen, Denmark, presented to the Zoo its first pair 
of whooper swans. From the Zoo in Rotterdam, Holland, were 
received a king cobra and some ruffs. In an air shipment from 
Australia came reptiles of more than a dozen species, including the 
carpet python, diamond python, and a number of rare lizards and 
turtles. 
