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culin each monkey receivecl at the Garden before allowing it 
to pass the quarantine room, has resulted in success beyond 
our early hopes. There has been no death from tuberculosis 
among the exhibition series in the Monkey House since 
October 16, 1907. This result justifies the belief that while 
it is of course possible that a sporadic case of the disease 
may now and then occur in the building, it can be kept in 
check, and that the heavy losses formerly met with from this 
cause are at an end. Furthermore, the monkeys now on 
exhibition present an appearance of vigor and good condition 
strongly contrasting with that usually observed. Unfortun- 
ately the frequent handling of each animal necessary in the 
exact application of the subcutaneous test, precludes its use 
generally through the collection. With care in the em- 
ployment of hygienic measures, however, the risk of commun- 
ication from a single case has been greatly lessened. Indeed, 
it will be seen from the report of the Pathologist that but three 
cases occurred during the year among mammals, which origi- 
nated in the Garden. 
By this practical result alone, without regard to other in- 
vestigations now in progress, the establishing of the Patholog- 
ical Laboratory is fully justified. It is not out of place here to 
suggest that if this Laboratory could be specially endowed, 
even if only to the amount of several thousand dollars a year, 
valuable additions to general knowledge of disease would be 
the re turn. 
The thanks of the Board are due to all whose friendly In- 
terest in the Gardens has been manifested. 
By Order of the Board, 
ARTHUR ERWIN BROWN, 
Secrefary. 
