66 NEW YORK ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY 
ATTENDANCE. 
The monthly record of attendance for 1913, 1914 and 1915 
is as follows: 
1915 1914 1913 
JANUA Tyee ee eee nae 80,606 56,268 88,195 
HMepruary: sete eee 123,466 DiecoD 75,895 
IM Clare Sree ste 105,286 TT CPART 127,448 
SI eee ee ee ae 142,497 82, tot 128,828 
a Vomet ee ee ee eee 245,483 394,154 262,474 
June te eee POO OES 220,406 297,719 
eR Utl Az cashes Ash Meee Re A 233,790 277,901 233,961 
AUOUSH 7 oe ee ee eS 249,072 242,672 
Sepvembers. =) Do 67 204,206 Li Sian 
Octobert. === A NG 210 150,872 136,800 
November) = 522s... 98,366 107,922 104,950 
December 45,493 43,009 73,370 
otal awe: 1,780,077 2,020,433 1,943,683 
DEPARTMENT OF MAMMALS. 
W. T. Hornaday, Curator; Raymond L. Ditmars, Assistant Curator. 
The year 1915 may well be marked as the beginning of 
important losses, in the mammal collection through old age. It 
was also marked by three tragic occurrences which involved in 
each case the loss of a Park celebrity. 
Our unrivalled Barbary lion, Sultan, eighteen years of age, 
acquired on October 17, 1902, and thirteen years in the Zoologi- 
cal Park, finally became so aged and infirm that life was no 
longer agreeable to him. In order to save him from lingering 
long and painfully, he was chloroformed. 
Our Alaskan brown bear, Billy, born and brought to the 
Park in 1899, met with a serious accident. Through a bad fall 
his pelvis was so badly shattered, at the hip joint, that he in- 
stantly became painfully crippled, and there was no possibility 
of effecting a cure or even giving him relief through an opera- 
tion. When it became apparent that nothing could be done 
for him, and that life was a painful burden, the animal was 
painlessly shot. 
