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ANNUAL REPORT SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, 1962 



Animals that die in the Zoo are offered to the U.S. National Museum. 

 This year 23 animals were sent to the Museum and there preserved 

 as scientific specimens. If the Museum does not need the animals, 

 they are sent on request to research workers in other institutions. 



The Zoo cooperated with the National Capital Parks and lent small 

 animals to Park naturalists and to the Nature Center in Kock Creek 

 Park for demonstration. 



VISITORS 



Work continued on developing a new method of estimating total 

 visitor attendance, as mentioned in last year's Annual Report. This 

 is being done in cooperation with Albert Mindlin and Sidney Staro- 

 bin, statisticians of the management office of the District of Columbia. 



Number of bus groups visiting the Zoo in fiscal year 1962 



Locality 



Alabama 



Arkansas 



Connect! cut 



Delaware 



District of Columbia 



Florida 



Georgia 



Illinois 



Indiana 



Kansas 



Kentucky 



Louisiana 



Maine 



Maryland 



Massachusetts 



Michigan 



Minnesota 



Number 

 of groups 



26 



1 



8 



12 



204 



83 



90 



12 



4 



1 



6 



1 



8 



1, 154 



13 



38 



2 



Number 

 in groups 



1, 180 



26 



374 



469 



7,762 



3, 120 



3,750 



442 



170 



40 



232 



32 



286 



45, 880 



438 



1,492 



90 



Locality 



Mississippi 



New Hampshire 



New Jersey 



New York 



North Carolina. 



Ohio 



Pennsylvania 



Rhode Island... 

 South Carolina- 

 Tennessee 



Texas 



Vermont 



Virginia 



West Virginia... 

 Wisconsin 



Total.... 



Number 

 of groups 



6 



3 



29 



236 



78 



51 



333 



14 



51 



45 



1 



3 



844 



86 



16 



3,459 



Number 

 in groups 



246 

 115 



1, 102 

 7,874 

 7, 134 

 1,939 



13, 261 

 585 



2, 130 

 1,807 



48 



111 



34, 255 



3,473 



527 



140, 390 



Groups from foreign countries 



Brazil 



Canada. _ 

 Denmark 

 France... 

 Germany 



21 

 30 

 21 

 30 

 17 



Japan 



Korea 



Norway 



Foreign students 



Total 



1 



1 



2 



54 



64 



30 

 37 



68 

 1.842 



2, 113 



About 2 p.m. each day the cars then parked in the Zoo are counted 

 and listed according to the State or country from which they come. 

 This is, of course, not a census of tlie cars coming to the Zoo but is 



