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Dr. Mann Sails Friday 

 With Cargo of 

 Specimens 



Latest Ambassador of Roosevelt's 

 Good Neighbor policy with South 

 America is Dr. William M. Mann, 

 director of the Zoo, who leaves 

 Washington this week for Argen- 

 tina to swap North American zoo 

 logical neighbors with those from 

 South America. 



Carefully ensconced in the S.S. 

 Uruguay when Dr. Mann sails 

 from New York on Friday will be 

 a pair of buffalo, several civet 

 cats, an assortment of raccoons, 

 a batch of coyotes, a mixture of 

 North American prairie dogs, and 

 one bald eagle— symbol of Ameri- 

 can democracy. 



None of these an im al s is 

 found among the animal neigh- 

 bors of South America, and with 

 them Dr. Mann, known as the 

 greatest animal trader in the 

 Western Hemisphere, expects to do 

 a brisk business. 



He is already in touch with the 

 directors of the zoos at Buenos 

 Aires and Rosario, where a pair of 

 large, brown-eyed lamas are re- 

 ported to be ready to do the Good 

 Neighbor act and swap places with 

 the National Zoological Park buf- 

 falo. The zoo is Rosario is also 

 anxious to get a couple of Dr. 

 Mann's prairie wolves. 



Accompanying Dr. and Mrs. 

 Mann on the trip, although not in 

 an official capacity, will be Dr. 

 John H. Gray, of Washington, for- 

 mer Harvard economist, who at 

 the age of 80 is one of the world's 

 premier hikers. Last year he took 

 a walking trip through the Bal- 

 kans, and may take another such 

 expedition through part of Argen- 

 tina. 



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Dr. Mann in Swapping Mood 



Zoo Director Dr. William M. 

 Mann leaves this week for the 

 tranquil purlieus of South 

 America to trade superfluities 

 for rarities. This bald eagle, 

 for instance, will be bartered 

 for what the genial doctor can 

 get The llama stays here and 

 possibly may get a pair of 

 companions. Dr. Mann has his 

 heart set on two more llamas. 



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Dr. Mann to Leave Friday 



Bearing gifts for South Ameri- 

 can zoos, Dr. William M. Mann, di- 

 rector of the National Zoological 

 Park, will sail for Brazil and Ar- 

 gentina from New York Friday 

 night to collect birds, reptiles and 

 animals. 



Dr. Mann is taking along two 

 yearling American bufTalos, several 

 civet cats from the East Indies, and 

 an assortment of coyotes, North 

 American prairie dogs, raccoons and 

 at least one American bald eagle. 



The scientist plans to present 

 these specimens to zoos in Rio de 

 Janeiro, Buenos Aires and other 

 South American cities. If the South 

 Americans reciprocate, Dr. Mann 

 will be more than happy to bring 

 back some gift additions to the lo- 

 cal Zoo. 



Dr. Mann, for some months past 

 has been in correspondence with zoo 

 .directors and animal dealers in 

 South Ameriea. On his way south 

 he will stop briefly in Rio de Janeiro, 

 Santos and Montevideo to make 

 plans for getting specimens together 

 which he will pick up on the return 

 journey. 



Trip Into Interior Planned. 



The Zoo director and his party, 

 which included Mrs. Mann, veteran 

 of several previous expeditions, and 

 Dr. John H. Gray of Washington, 

 retired Harvard economist, prob- 

 ably will spend more than a month 

 in Argentina. 



Dr. Mann expects to take a rail- 

 road trip into the interior of Ar- 

 gentina, in the direction of the lake 

 region. 



He may even get as far south as 

 Northern Patagonia. The party will 

 sail in the American Republic Line 

 steamship Uruguay, and probably 

 will return about the middle of June. 



Dr. Mann has made many pre- 

 vious trips to South America on 

 scientific missions. On one trip he 

 crossed the Andes from the Pacific 

 side and came down a tributary to 

 the Amazon, crossing the continent 

 on the latter river. 



Looks Forward to Argentina. 



He has never been to the Argen- 

 tine, however, and looks forward 

 with keen enthusiasm to making 

 new friends in this part of Latin 

 America. 



Dr. Mann's last expedition was 

 to the East Indies, from which he 

 returned in the fall of 1937 with 

 more than 1,000 rare animals, birds 

 and reptiles. Last summer he took* 

 a vacation trip to Scandinavia, Rus- 

 sia, Germany, France and Eng- 

 land. 



Although he was on vacation, he 

 kept right on working for the Wash- 

 ington Zoo, arranging swaps, mak- 

 ing friends and meeting animal 

 dealers. As a result, he was able' 

 to exchange specimens common here 

 for species hard to obtain in the 

 United States. 



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