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ANNUAL, REPORT SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, 19 31 



VISITORS 



The great number of visitors who have been coming to the park 

 since the opening of the reptile house has prevented sucli a decline 

 in the year's attendance as exists in other institutions of public 

 interest because of the economic depression which has so reduced 

 travel. The estimated attendance as recorded in the daily reports 

 of the park is as follows : 



1930 



July 186,600 



August 170, 000 



September 221,710 



October. __ 130,200 



November 105, 000 



December 36,000 



1931 



January 97,600 



February 82,948 



March.. _ _ 315,750 



April 377, 207 



May 228, 500 



June 220, 000 



Total visitors for year. 2, 171, 515 



The attendance of organizations, mainly classes of students, of 

 which we have definite record, was 34,026 from 649 different schools 

 in 21 States and the District of Columbia, as follows : 



states 



Alabama. ._ 



Connecticut 



Delaware 



District of Columbia 



Iowa 



Illinois 



Indiana 



Kansas 



Maine.-- 



Maryland 



Massachusetts 



Michigan 



States 



New Jersey 



New York 



North Carolina. 



Ohio 



Pennsylvania... 



Tennessee 



Virginia 



West Virginia.. 

 Wisconsin 



Num- 

 ber 

 persons 



2,972 



2, 946 



387 



1,046 



7,204 



7.5 



1,158 



101 



150 



Num. 



ber 

 parties 



49 



30 



11 



13 



152 



2 



28 



5 



2 



34, 026 



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Observations of the numbers of automobiles from distant States 

 and countries has led to the taking of a census each day of the cars 

 actually parked in the park at one time, from which the following 

 tabulation has been prepared showing the percentages of cars from 

 various States and countries by months : 



