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50 Gray, and Dr. [R. Mitchell] Bush. I'm always hearing about some new vet on the staff, sometimes they're just interns. We have lots of veterinary help nowadays. HENSON: I noticed at one point apparently a pediatrician was helping with the care for the chimps and the gorillas. NIH--National Institute of Health--would do some autopsies on the animals, but other than that I guess there wasn't too much you could do. Did they do much medicating? MANN: Not NIH as much as the pathology division of Armed Services, from Walter Reed [Army Medical Center], or some connection there; I can't tell you exactly what it was. HENSON: From the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology. MANN: Yes, Armed Forces Institute of Pathology. Yes, they have helped and perhaps they still do, for all I know. HENSON: Their building was located where the Hirshhorn [Museum and Sculpture Garden] is now. MANN: Oh, really? HENSON: They had that museum. MANN: That's right, they did have a museum. HENSON: So probably there was again that close connection, because they had a fairly close connection with the Smithsonian at that