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put up some resistance since the changes were quite 
marked. It may have been incorrect diet upon our 
part but it is possible that visitors may have been re- 
sponsible since the birds attracted much attention and 
I personally saw them being fed by outsiders. The 
Bower birds died from enteritis also but of a distinctly 
infective nature, it would seem not directly related to 
feeding. In September a large consignment of new 
Marsupials were received numbering amongst them 
several species never before shown in the Garden (Bern- 
ard's Kangaroo, Thigh-striped and Nail-tailed Wallaby). 
Four of them have died with marsupial streptothricosis, 
Kangaroo disease of the jaw, a kind, of actinomycosis, 
and present amongst these animals all over the world. 
They were exhibited in separate freshly cleaned cages 
well away from the old Kangaroos and where these 
animals had never been housed. It seems probable 
that they brought the disease with them. These are 
but general comments upon the important deaths; more 
specific discussion of pathological interest will be found 
in the second part of the report. The museum has been 
increased by 105 pathological specimens and 198 normal 
organs. All the monkeys have been retested and careful 
watch is being kept upon the birds since we have dis- 
covered some infestation with worms which carried off 
so many parrots a few years ago. 
The staff remains the same and with the same relative 
duties. No publications or presentations have been 
made because of the pressure of routine work but we all 
have material under way. 
The following is a list of the animals dying during the 
year. The total will be found not to tally with the 
records upon the table, as some specimens have died 
from injur}^ and some were decomposed. Moreover, in 
many instances animals are included in the figures of 
more than one heading since lesions of importance may 
have been found in more than one of the systems. It 
is seldom the case that only one of the systems is suffi- 
ciently affected to be the only cause of death. 
