APPENDIX IV. 
REPORT ON THE NATIONAL ZOOLOGICAL PARK. 
Sm: I have the honor to present herewith a report of the operations of the 
National Zoological Park for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1911. 
The general appropriation made by Congress for that year was $100,000, and 
in addition to this an appropriation of $15,000 was made for roads and walks. 
The cost of maintenance was $81,325, and the amount remaining from the 
general appropriation, $18,675, was expended in various improvements and 
repairs. 
ACCESSIONS. 
Among the important accessions of the year were a pair of Haytian soleno- 
dons, a rare insectivorous mammal, presented by Mr. and Mrs. Franklin Adams 
of the Pan American Union.. A pair of northern fur seals was received from 
the United States Bureau of Fisheries, a fine female grizzly bear from Maj. 
H. C. Benson, acting superintendent of the Yellowstone National Park, and 
four Virginia deer from Gen. Joseph S. Smith, manager of the National Soldiers 
Home, Bangor, Maine. By purchase, the park obtained a hippopotamus, an 
East African buffalo, three prong-horn antelopes, a pair of reindeer, a large 
Asiatic macaque monkey, and various other animals. Some important animals 
were also obtained by exchange, as noted below. The accessions included about 
twenty species not before represented in the collection. 
Early in its history the park exhibited for two years a hippopotamus which 
had been received as a loan. Since that was withdrawn the species has not 
been represented in the collection. The present animal, a female about 2 years 
old, is from East Africa and weighs 850 pounds. The buffalo was captured in 
German East Africa and is believed to be the form described as Buffelus 
neumanni. The African buffalo has for some time been rather difficult to 
obtain, and the park was fortunate in being able to secure a specimen at com- 
paratively small cost. It was also fortunate in obtaining in western Texas a 
male and two female prong-horn antelopes, all adult, from which two vigorous 
young have been born. Through an animal dealer on the Pacific coast the large 
brown macaque monkey of southeastern Asia and several other species new 
to the collection were obtained which had not been procurable elsewhere. 
EXCHANGES. 
Surplus animals were disposed of by exchange as usual, in accordance with 
the terms of the act establishing the park. They were sent to the New York 
Zoological Park, the London Zoological Garden, and various dealers and private 
individuals. In return for these, the park secured a number of important ani- 
mals, including a fine specimen each of bontebok, blessbok, and springbok, a 
small anteater, a pair of tenrecs (insectivorous mammals of Madagascar), and 
other mammals and birds. 'The bontebok and blessbok, which are very beautiful 
African antelopes, are especially valued, as the former now exists only in a few 
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