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DR. G. M. VEVEBS, superintendent of the Zoological Society of London, will be retiring for medical reasons at the end of the year. He received his medical education at St. Thomas‘s Hospital, London, and served in the First World War as a captain in the R.A.M.C. After demobilization he became assistant to Prof. R. T. Leiper, in the Department of Helm-inthology of the London School of Tropical Medicine, and was awarded a Beit Medical Fellowship for Medical Research in parasitology. The same year he was also appointed honorary parasitologist to the Zoological Society and spent much of his time in the Society‘s prosectorium. In 1921 he went to British Guiana on a Colonial Office inquiry into filariasis. In 1923 Dr. Vevers was appointed superintendent of the Zoological Society in succession to the late R. I. Pocock. He introduced the application of the general principles of hygiene to wild animals in captivity, paying particular attention to the helminthic infections which used to be such a frequent cause of death in newly imported animals. He also introduced improvements in diet and housing, resulting in a reduction of the incidence of dietetic diseases and epidemics such as tuberculosis. He was also responsible for carrying out the extensive building programme at the Zoological Gardens, Regent‘s Park, following the First World War.
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Dr. G. M. Vevers. Nature 162, 727 (1948). https://doi.org/10.1038/162727b0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/162727b0