I think the communication between veterinarians in the beginning was mainly through personal contacts. We had phone numbers of the other six or seven people that, you know, that we would talk to. We didn’t do a lot of publishing, although I published my first couple of papers when I was at Baltimore. I don’t think I did anything that was probably later on, I think some of the stuff that I was doing was maybe more publishable. I was mainly doing, just cleaning up, getting a preventive medicine program, doing fire engine type medicine, maybe a little bit of geriatric medicine, you know, nothing on what I would later coin as applied clinical research, where you would be doing a study, and the results that you got, you would be using the next day before you published it six weeks from now or several months from now, when you got a large enough end number to make it publishable. And some of the, I think there was one of the animal food guys from one of the zoo, one of the companies that was providing zoo food would kind of go around, and he was the unofficial kind of news guy. “Oh yeah, well so and so back there, did this on a lion or something like that.” So he was a source of information. And then Clint Gray was the Secretary of the American Association of Zoo Veterinarians, and put a newsletter.
