REPORT OF THE SECRETARY. 59 



Statement of the collection. 



ACCESSIONS DURING THE YEAR. 



Presentee! 65 



Received from Yellowstone National Park 1 



Received in exchange 13 



Lent 11 



Purchased 130 



Boi-u and hatched in National Zoological Park 115 



Total 335 



SUMMARY. 



Animals on hand July 1, 1910 1,424 



Accessions during the year 335 



Total 1,759 



Deduct loss (by exchange, death, and returning of animals) 345 



On hand June 30, 1911 - 1,414 



The number of visitors to the park during the year was 521,440, a daily 

 average of 1,428. The largest number in any one month was 95,535, in April, 

 1911, a daily average for the month of 3,184. 



During the year there visited the park 169 schools, Sunday schools, classes, 

 etc., with 4,966 pupils, a monthly average of 414 pupils. This number is an 

 increase over the previous year of 14 schools, 1,083 pupils, and an increase in 

 the monthly average of 90 pupils. While, most of the classes were from the 

 District of Columbia, 47 of them were from neighboring States, and classes 

 came from Meriden, Hopedale, Norton, North Attleboro, Clinton, Hudson, and 

 Whitman, Massachusetts ; Dover, Peterboro, Lancaster, and Exeter, New Hamp- 

 shire; Bath, Augusta, Biddeford, Gardiner, and Sanford, Maine; Bellows Falls, 

 Vermont; Raleigh, North Carolina; Middleport (two) and Penn Yan, New 

 York ; Waynesburg, Pennsylvania ; and Hartford, Connecticut. 



IMPROVEMENTS. 



A house for zebras, a frame building 35 feet square, was constructed, pro- 

 viding four good-sized stalls with yards attached. This is now occupied by a 

 male Grant's zebra, the male Grevy's zebra, which was returned from the 

 experiment station of the Bureau of Animal Industry at Bethesda, Maryland, 

 after use there in breeding, and a hybrid from the latter animal and a do- 

 mestic ass. 



The existing yards on the west side of the antelope house were too small, 

 and the fences around them, which were of temporary character, had seriously 



