REPORT OF THE SECRETARY 75 



NUMBER OF GROUPS FROM SCHOOLS 



Number Number 



of groups in groups 



Washington, D. C 45 1,904 



Maryland 20 1, 301 



Virginia 27 884 



Pennsylvania 1 20 



North Carolina 1 18 



Total 103 4, 127 



ACQUISITION OF SPECIMENS 



A few animals are now coming into the market, and the Zoo has 

 been able to add a number of interesting specimens. Chief among 

 these are a collection of attractive West African monkeys and a few 

 birds from South and Central America. 



GIFTS 



Many interesting specimens have been presented to the Zoo during 

 the year. Among these were a pair of Solomon Islands cockatoos, 

 a red-sided lory, a cardinal parrot, and a Pacific swamp hen presented 

 by Maj. Gen. R. G. Breene, U. S. A. ; and black-striped and pretty-faced 

 wallabies from R. A. Bryant, Jr., of Coronado, Calif. Mrs. Erika 

 Cook Bascom brought with her from the Gold Coast a pigmy galago 

 and two green fruit pigeons, rare in captivity. From Senor don 

 Alejandro Caballero Gamboa of San Jose, Costa Rica, came a collection 

 of brilliant cage birds, sent through Luis Marden of the National 

 Geographic Society, who also presented a trio of Costa Rican turtles. 



James Landis, of the Foreign Economic Administration, was pre- 

 sented by the Government of Saudi Arabia with a pair of the rare and 

 beautiful antelope, Oryx beatrix, which he sent to the Zoo. 



George Ballou of Bethesda, Md., continued to donate various mam- 

 mals and birds collected during his field work in the south. 



DONORS AND THEIR GIFTS 



Alderson, Wendell, Marshall Hall, Md., black widow spider. 



Allard, H. A., Arlington, Va., opossum. 



Andrews Field, Washington, D. C, white-tailed deer. 



Andrews, Maj. M. B., Arlington, Va., white-lipped tamarin. 



Ansel, Willits, Annapolis, Md., nine-banded armadillo. 



Anthony, Frank. Arlington, Va., Cooper's hawk. 



Ballou, George, Bethesda, Md., short-tailed shrew, two diamond-back rattlesnakes, 

 two cottonmouth moccasins, six black snakes, cotton rat, mud snake, six garter 

 snakes, two indigo snakes, two blue racer snakes, chicken snake, turkey vulture, 

 five deer mice, meadow mouse. 



Bartsch, Paul, Washington, D. C, pilot black snake. 



Bascom, Mrs. Erika Cook, Washington, D. C, galago, two green fruit pigeons. 



