60 ANNUAL REPORT SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, 1909. 
Purchases included a pair of Rocky Mountain sheep, an Arabian camel, a 
reindeer from Alaska, a cassowary, 2 South American condors, 2 jabirus, ete. 
Births numbered 110, and included a Brazilian tapir, 3 American bison, a 
yak, 4 tigers, 2 black bears, a llama, 6 Barbary sheep, 17 deer of 6 species, 
kangaroos, armadillos, ete., also various birds. 
The deaths included the Philippine water buffalo, which died from peri- 
tonitis resulting from the bursting of an abscess of the rumen; a young orang, 
which died from leukemia; and a leopard, which, also, died from peritonitis. 
A Rocky Mountain goat, which was deposited in the park, died thirty-seven 
days after its receipt, from tuberculosis, which evidently had been contracted 
while it was kept in confinement near the place of capture in British Columbia. 
An Huropean flamingo, a crowned pigeon, and several other birds died from 
aspergillosis, and five storks from cercomonad roup. 
One hundred and thirty-eight autopsies were made by the pathologists of the 
Bureau of Animal Industry and two by the Laboratory of Hygiene, which gave 
the following results: 
Cause of death, 1908-9. 
ETN TIAN OT eee ee a 20M Eiydnrophilosigi a ss =:. arene 1 
TMObereulOSiS = see ts Sa eee 16 | Subcutaneous acariasis.__________ 1 
Pulmonary Gonuzestion= saan 80 -Uncinariaisig, Mae ele ee 2 
SER OUILOSI Se: = oo ote ae Ga SBroteus bacilosishaa ass. 3 
Pnteritis (and gastro-enteritis).._._ 20 | Echinococcosis____-__-________ if! 
INGDHTICIiSSe. ae swe coe Aes Dee 6 | Porocephalus infestation_________ 2 
INGCCEOSIS/ OLmivier= == == seen 2) | Rapes Se We 3 
PC DAbiG See 2A ee A | Vivo fibroma ste eee ee il 
Parenchymatous degeneration of Goiter 222.22 952 SE ee if 
iL ,C Teen EE ns AN es Se 2 oh Se ae it \WOsteomalacia= ===. se a ee 2 
Fatty degeneration of liver______- 15) Simpacrionvor bowelas= === 3 
PSRIhOMUG SM cure See Ne BAN ay |) IbonoeveiKorm Ort (Crtoy)en oo alt 
IRERICATOIt Ses =a ate eae we a 2 | Urinary concretions in cloaca_____ 1 
Fatty degeneration of heart and Brokenvecesinelod Gia =.= aa all 
a ViGTire haem Sa Se ee ee PEPE were es Ll Starvation Se 5 
Valvular obstruction of heart____ 1 | Starvation resulting from cystic 
Septicemiial 2s es ee eee LM raboarere aloy Tdoywor ees Ve ee al 
lmeukemila. 222k So ee Li) Stillbornpes = 22 ee aes = see ee 4 
Cercomonad | roup ee 4") Necident=- 2b. 5 ee io 
Infectious entero-hepatitis_______ i JNO cause found === 4 
Coccidialityphlitis== =a aaa iL | 
VISITORS. 
The number of visitors to the park during the year was 564,639, a daily 
average of about 1,547. The largest number in any month was 127,635, in April, 
1909, a daily average of 4,254. 
During the year there visited the park 148 schools, Sunday schools, classes, 
ete., with 4,611 pupils, a monthly average of 384 pupils. While most of them 
were from the city and the immediate vicinity, 25 of the schools were from 
neighboring States, and classes came from Lowell, Warren, Boston, Fall River, 
and Dover, Mass.; Portland, Augusta, and Auburn, Me.; and Wallingford, Vt. 
NEEDS OF THE PARK. 
Aquarium.—The present building was originally a hay shed of ordinary Vir- 
ginia pine lumber. It is now in a most dilapidated condition, the foundation 
