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Accordingly, the big-game crisis was met by the Chamber- 

 lain-Hayden bills for the creation of about one hundred game 

 sanctuaries in national forests. For those bills we have constant- 

 ly worked ever since December 6, 1915, when they were intro- 

 duced. Although favorably reported to both houses of Congress, 

 it has thus far been an impossibility to bring either bill up for 

 a vote; and now, for war reasons, there is no hope that either 

 bill will be acted upon at this session. We never will cease to 

 work for this game sanctuary measure until it finally becomes a 

 law. 



Concerning the cause of the upland game birds of the West, 

 we have endeavored to start reform campaigns in eighteen states, 

 simultaneously, while their legislatures are in session. Some 

 are interested, others are indifferent, and the remainder are 

 hopelessly apathetic. While we expect to achieve some real re- 

 sults, the outlook is not very promising, and it seems more than 

 probable that ten or twenty years from now the great majority 

 of the states west of the Mississippi River will be absolutely 

 destitute of upland game birds. 



The most of the state legislatures adjourn early in March, 

 and results will not be known until then. 



THE ANIMAL HOSPITAL. 



The new Animal Hospital, — adequate, well-planned and up- 

 to-date, — was finished in the autumn of 1916, and at once occu- 

 pied. Its most notable single achievement thus far was sav- 

 ing the life of a valuable chimpanzee, Fanny, from pneumonia, 

 when her death seemed certain to occur. The speedy and com- 

 plete cure of the case was due to the fact that the new hos- 

 pital provided means by which Dr. Blair and Keeper Engeholm 

 were able to control the conditions surrounding the case. For 

 example, the small sized hospital cage is easily covered with can- 

 vas, and converted into a vapor bath for the inhalation treatment. 



Except for the very large animals, or those so savage and 

 so large also that their handling in a hospital is well-nigh im- 

 possible, the hospital very sensibly diminishes the difficulties that 

 surround the Medical Department. It is a great satisfaction to 

 feel that henceforth Dr. Blair will have a fair show in the treat- 

 ment of diseases and accidents among the Park animals. 



