70 



ANNUAL REPORT SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, 1910. 



Food for animals $520 



Transportation and subsistence of A. B. Baker 730 



Help with animals, including services of attendants, gratuities to ship's 



officers, etc 190 



Telegraph and cable messages 43 



Miscellaneous 75 



Total 5,291 



Thirty-four species or subspecies new to the collection were exhibited during 

 the year, including: 



Defassa water buck. 

 Grant's gazelle. 

 Muntjac. 

 Grant's zebra. 

 Northern warthog. 



Kilimanjaro lion. 

 Clouded leopard. 

 Indian tapir. 

 East African eland 

 Coke's hartebeest. 



Cape hyrax. 

 Short-tailed eagle. 

 Warlike crested eagle. 



The most important losses were : 



Indian tapir. 

 East African eland. 



2 Rocky Mountain sheep. 



3 mule deer. 

 Reindeer. 



Dromedary. 



2 llamas. 



2 jaguars. 



2 Tasmanian wolves. 



2 leopards. 



2 jabirus. 

 Whooping crane. 

 North African ostrich. 



One hundred and sixty-two dead animals were sent to the National Museum. 

 Autopsies were made by pathologists of the Bureau of Animal Industry on 99 

 animals, showing causes of death as follows : 



Pneumonia 22 



Tuberculosis T 



Pulmonary congestion 2 



Aspergillosis 5 



Gastro-enteritis S 



Enteritis 12 



Gastritis 7 



Hemorrhagic enteiltis 2 



Nephritis •^> 



Fatty degeneration of liver 1 



Peritonitis 2 



Meti'itis 1 



Intestinal coccidiosis 5 



Cercomoniasis 5 



Ilydrophilosis 2 



Proteusbacillosis 1 



Porocephalus infestation 1 



Septicemia 1 



Intestinal parasites 1 



Enterotoxism 1 



Psoroptic mange 1 



Eversion of rectum 1 



Traumatism 1 



Malnutrition from faultj' teeth 1 



Suffocation 1 



Old age 2 



No cause found 3 



The number of visitors to the park during the year was 721,555, a daily average 

 of 1,977. This number is an increase over the previous year of 156,816, and a:n 

 increase in the daily average of 430. The largest number in any month was 

 156,432, in March, 1910, a daily average for the mouth of 5,046. 



During the year there visited the park 155 schools, Sunday schools, classes, 

 etc., with 3,SS3 pupils, a monthly average of 324 pupils. While most of them 

 were from the city and immediate viciuitj', 34 of the schools v.'ere from neigh- 

 boring States, and classes came from Falmouth and Haverhill, Massachusetts; 

 Stafford Springs, Connecticut ; Rochester, Dover, Exeter, and Nev^port, New 

 Hampshire; Bellows Falls, Vermont; and Sanford, Maine. 



