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ANNUAL REPORT SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, 1952 



VISITORS 



The estimated number of visitors to the Zoo was 3,294,569, or 

 165,831 less than for the year 1951, a decrease due mainly to incle- 

 ment weather in the spring of 1952, particularly on week ends and 

 holidays, which deterred persons from the District of Columbia, Mary- 

 land, and Virginia from visiting the Zoo. There was little change, 

 however, in the record of automobile attendance and groups coming 

 by bus. 



Estimated number of visitors for fiscal year 1952 



July (1951) 496,000 



August 459, 000 



September 379, 500 



October 311,200 



November 149, 700 



December 86, 100 



January (1952) 105, S00 



February 133, 900 



March 147, 650 



April 344, 719 



May 339, 500 



June 341, 500 



Total 3, 294, 569 



Groups came to the Zoo from schools in Canada and 32 States, some 

 as far away as Maine, Florida, Oklahoma, Kansas, and South Dakota. 

 This was an increase of 31 groups and 7,874 individuals in groups 

 over last year. 



Number of groups from schools 



Locality 



Alabama -- 



CaDada 



Connecticut 



Delaware. -- 



District of Columbia. 



Florida. 



Georgia 



Illinois — 



Indiana 



Iowa ■ 



Kansas 



Kentucky 



Louisiana -. 



Maine 



Maryland 



Massachusetts ... 



Michigan 



Minnesota 



Number Number 

 of groups in groups 



11 

 1 



12 



9 



149 



7 



46 

 4 

 9 

 4 

 1 



18 



] 



8 



619 



10 



16 

 3 



407 



54 



572 



343 



6,596 



907 



3,876 



351 



795 



102 



27 



637 



71 



694 



35, 381 



356 



1,159 



85 



Locality 



Mississippi 



Missouri 



New Hampshire. 



New Jersey 



New York 



North Carolina. . 



Ohio.. 



Oklahoma 



Pennsylvania — 



Rhode Island 



South Carolina.. 

 South Dakota. .. 



Tennessee 



Virginia 



West Virginia. .. 

 Wisconsin 



Total. 



Number 

 of groups 



2 



2 



1 



17 

 66 

 215 

 67 



1 

 266 



2 

 35 



1 



24 



498 



65 



1 



2,191 



Number 

 in groups 



126 



60 



34 



1,150 



4,665 



8,795 



2,475 



23 



18, 904 



75 



1,227 



20 



2,015 



26, 967 



4,902 



21 



123,872 



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 country 

 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 attend- 

 ance, by States, of people in private automobiles. Many of the District 

 of Columbia, Maryland, and Virginia cars come to the Zoo to bring 



