88 Proposed Research Laboratory for the Diseases of Cage Birds


that the many urgent problems concerning aviculturists demand the

energies of a whole-time trained pathologist.


“ We had expressed to Miss Knobel the hope that your Council

and yourself would consent to making known the objects of this appeal

and the urgent need for endowing the research, so that Sir Frederick

Hobday might approach your members with the assurance that

through the Avicultural Magazine your Council had expressed

their approval and support of the appeal.


“ I should like to emphasize, in order to prevent any misunder¬

standing, that we have no desire or intention to divert material for

examination from the laboratory of your own society ; on the contrary

it is our desire to expand wherever possible all services devoted to

the study and control of disease in birds. For some years past the

students of the College have been trained in the diseases of birds and

already there are scattered about the country a number of veterinary

practitioners devoting their attention to this branch of veterinary

practice. We think it essential that aviculturists should ultimately

have the opportunity of consulting veterinary surgeons familiar with

the owner’s problems and with the conditions obtaining in the locality,

thus eventually we hope to build up the veterinary services for bird

owners comparable to that available for the owners of agricultural

stock, dogs, and cats.”


The Editor of Cage Birds has consented to receive subscriptions

towards this object, and they should be sent to him at 4 Carmelite

Street, E.C. 4, marked “ Veterinary Research Laboratory Fund ”.


The Veterinary Journal for January, 1933, is chiefly devoted to

Fur-bearing Animals and Cage Birds and contains a valuable article

on Diseases of Aviary Birds by Colonel A. E. Hamerton, M.R.C.S.,

Pathologist to the Zoological Society. By permission of the author

and editor we are reprinting this in the present number of the

Avicultural Magazine. Another article of special interest to our

members deals with Rickets in Parrakeets and is from the pen of the

Marquess of Tavistock.



