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MANN:     Malcolm Davis went with Byrd to the Antarctic. He went twice, at least twice.

HENSON:   Now did they request him or did he want to go? How did that come about that he went?

MANN:     I think Davis wanted to go. [Laughter]

HENSON:   I would think, yes. He apparently collected some other birds too and the penguins.

MANN:     Oh, yes.
 
HENSON:   They seem very hard to keep from what I saw in the [[underlined]] Annual Report [[/underlined]].

MANN:     Sometimes they are, sometimes they aren't. Now the Galapagos penguins, we had them for years and years in an outdoor pond, but the emperors and the kings seem to be more delicate.

HENSON:   Yes, I noticed at one point they were using some experimental vaporizers they'd gotten from the DeVilbiss Company. I guess that's 
to use for medication that they were giving them, and I guess that's when they were just beginning to develop these vaporizers.  

MANN:     Yes, I think the birds had that aspergillosis. Of course, I don't think anybody knew how to treat it in those days; they probably do today. In those days we didn't have a veterinarian at the zoo, and today we must have half a dozen of them. Dr. Reed is a vet by training; he's not practicing any more. But there's Dr. [Clinton W.]