APPENDIX 6 

 REPORT ON THE NATIONAL ZOOLOGICAL PARK 



Sir : I have the honor to submit the following report on the opera- 

 tions of the National Zoological Park for the fiscal year ending June 

 30, 1925. 



Mr. N. Hollister, superintendent of the park since 1916, died on 

 November 3, 1924, and was succeeded by Dr. Alexander Wetmore, 

 who served until April 1, 1925. On that date Doctor Wetmore was 

 appointed an assistant secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, and 

 the writer was honored by appointment as superintendent of the 

 park on May 13, 1925. 



The appropriation made by Congress for the regular maintenance 

 of the park was $148,237. From the printing and binding appro- 

 priation of the Smithsonian Institution, $300 was allotted to the 

 National Zoological Park. A special appropriation of $3,250 was 

 made by Congress for laying a water main and installing two fire 

 hydrants in the park. This sum proved to be inadequate, and it was 

 necessary to allot money from the regular maintenance fund of the 

 park to complete the work. 



As regards the collection, the year has not been a satisfactory one. 

 Many of the specimens in the park representing major types of ani- 

 mals are very old, and occasional deaths are beginning to thin their 

 ranks, as has been expected, which has resulted during the past year 

 in the loss of valuable specimens in several representative groups, 

 thus greatly diminishing the value of the collection. 



ACCESSIONS 



Gifts. — One hundred and thirty animals were presented to the 

 park or placed there on indefinite deposit during the year. Notable 

 among these are the splendid young male chimpanzee and a pair of 

 turacous placed on deposit by Mr. Victor J. Evans, who maintains 

 a continual interest in the collection; a series of five valuable mon- 

 keys presented by Mr. and Mrs. E. R. Grant, of Washington, D. C. ; 

 a Bateleur eagle, an Abyssinian falcon, and two South American 

 stone plover, by Mr. B. H. Swales ; a brocket deer by INIr. P. W. Shu- 

 feldt, of Belize, British Honduras; a black bear by Mr. Fred N. Bent, 

 of De Leon Springs, Fla.; and a large monitor lizard by Capt. 



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