106 ANNUAL REPORT SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, 1949 
VISITORS 
The total attendance was 3,346,050, an increase of 305,510 over the 
previous year. ‘This was the largest attendance in the history of the 
Zoo and is probably due in part to the continued high employment in 
the Washington area, increase in travel accompanying the general 
economic prosperity, and the frequency with which we were able to 
announce the addition of interesting specimens to the collection. 
The variation in attendance on the different days of the week which 
was so extreme before the war has been much less noticeable since the 
war. Formerly early days of the week had relatively low attendance, 
with an increasing number of visitors the latter portion of the week 
and with very large crowds on Saturdays, Sundays, and holidays. 
There is also a considerable increase in attendance in the earlier hours 
of the day. 
ESTIMATED NUMBER OF VISITORS FOR FISCAL YEAR 1949 
Jy ACIGAS shires ee FE A A404 OOO ih ebruary 5220. Bee eee 167, 700 
Auguste 2 Ste Shee Sane 468 000i); March Sheers ee 245, 300 
Nentembero2-8 22M oss 2 3e0 CODA pri eee otek 2 eee SS 375, 500 
Ontobers cee = ss BE x MESO TOO MV Syy = ine hen) ae eee are 410, 500 
INovenberi-= =. 2. -- =" one 169400 | Junet—-s2eabe. esos eee 299, 300 
Decembersoe= 2. Sse 222 49, 450 a 
Januanys (1949) 22- Seeeeee 167, 000 otal Stee. Saree 3, 346, 050 
Groups came to the Zoo from schools in 25 States, some as far away 
as Maine, Florida, Texas, and California. One group of 33 persons 
came from Havana, Cuba. 
NUMBER OF GROUPS FROM SCHOOLS 
Number | Number Number | Number 
of groups] in groups of groups |in groups 
Wabamae so 36. 22 Ses 7 1974 |e Vlississipplees === aan eee 2 35 
@aliforniay Se 32a aes 1 15S) | New, Jerseya sea nee eee 23 1,374 
Connecticn ss 8 497,)|| (New. VOrk= 28S ee 95 5, 582 
Delawarevoss pitas Doerr 7 385) ||| North Caroling 2 ae 154 5, 320 
District of Columbia_------_- 132 7, 822 Nigga es ee oe 47 1, 647 
lorida -i25 eee hh eee 6 672 || Pennsylvania--=_ 2552. -=2 22S 245 12, 261 
Georgige eee A eee el 48 1,819 |} South Carolina__...-....--..- 39 1,119 
Hlinoisk Sake See ee Peete 1 2) |\eMennessee-tessa~caaenens cess 33 1, 453 
Mr Gass sage he tae el 12 45 oVirginig=s =-- 02s] soos soe 362 19, 312 
Kentucky ates Sak Sas 2 9 201) |||) West, Virginia s.22525 eee 50 2, 425 
Misine sets ees aos eee 12 775 
Weryland ee aa 525 28, 859 MNotali(States)o=---===— 1, 843 93, 599 
Massachusetts..-_....-.-_-._- 374 ||| Havana; Cubaso2cns 22s es 1 33 
ichigan’=-22aas ee 16 674 
Minn esotatecsse tse nee 2 76 U Ney 27) (ee eases 1, 844 93, 632 
About 2 p. m. each day the cars then parked in the Zoo are counted 
by the Zoo police and listed according to the State, Territory, or 
country from which they came. This is, of course, not a census of 
the cars eoming to the Zoo, but is valuable in showing the percentage 
