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ANNUAL REPORT SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, 194 7 



NUMBER OF GROUPS FROM SCHOOLS 



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

 by the Zoo police and listed according to the State, Territory, or coun- 

 try from which they came. This is, of course, not a census of the 

 cars coming to the Zoo but is valuable in showing the percentage of 

 attendance by States of people in private automobiles. The tabula- 

 tion for the fiscal year 1947 is as follows : 



Percent 



Washington, D. C 30.6 



Maryland 21. 09 



Virginia 20.04 



Pennsylvania 4. 2 



New York 2.5 



Ohio 1. 9 



Percetit 



North Carolina 1. 8 



West Virginia 1.2 



California 1. 1 



New Jersey 1. 1 



Maine . 9 



Florida . 9 



The cars that made up the remaining 12.67 percent came from 

 every one of the remaining States, as well as from Alaska, Alberta, 

 Argentina, Australia, British Columbia, Canal Zone, Cuba, Hawaii, 

 Manitoba, Mexico, New Brunswick, Nicaragua, Nova Scotia, Ontario, 

 Panama, Quebec, Saskatchewan, and Sweden. 



It is well known that District of Columbia, Maryland, and Vir- 

 ginia cars bring to the Zoo many people from other parts of the 

 United States and of the world, but no figures are available on which 

 to base percentages. 



THE EXHIBITS 



The quality of specimens on exhibition has been fairly satisfactory 

 during the year. The total number of specimens on hand June 30, 

 1947, was 454 more than on the corresponding date in 1946, the prin- 

 cipal increase being in the number of birds and amphibians. 



The outstanding exhibits during the year were penguins. Four 

 species, the emperor, macaroni, rock -hopper, and adelie, were brought 

 from the Antarctic by the United States Naval Antarctic Expedi- 

 tion through the interest of Kear Adm. Richard E. Byrd and Ad- 

 miral Richard H. Cruzen. Two other species, the Humboldt and jack- 

 ass, were already in the Zoo or were obtained from other sources. 



