PATHOLOGICAL LABOHATO 1ST. 
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A co LI eat ion of animals such as mantaine d "by the National 
Zoological Park should he used to its fullest extent, and it is 
suggested that, in connection with the park, a laboratory he es¬ 
tablished wherein could he studied animal diseases. 
As one scientist has expressed it in regard to the Zoo; 
"Death in its various fo nns is quite as interesting as life.” 
This, from the standpoint of the Zoological Park, is hard 
to believe. However, it is most important that the diseases of 
animals b& much better understood. It is known that there is often 
a distinct relationship between the diseases of man and those of 
the lower animals. Sometimes they are identical, and sometimes 
a disease of man is dependent on one of the lower animals as an 
intermediate host. 
The Zoological Park at present cooperates, as far as pos¬ 
sible, with the Bureau of Animal Industry and with the Research 
Department of Johns Hopkins University, both of which find the 
park a rich field for their studies. We have no laboratory 
facilities at all available at the park, and no competent man for 
the investigation of such diseases, who might avail himself of the 
vast amount of material on hand. In Philadelphia such a laboratory 
exists, where it is an important adjunct to the zoological garden. 
The annual report of this laboratory is one of the more notable 
publications in pathology, and a book by Dr. Fox, "Diseases in 
Captive Wild Mammals and Birds", based on studies in this labor¬ 
atory, emphasizes the v&ue of such a project. 
