78 ANNUAL REPOET SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, 1915. 



SUMMARY. 



Animals on hand July 1, 1914 1,362 



Accessions during the year 498 



1,860 

 Deduct loss (by exchange, death, return of animals, etc.) 463 



On hand .Tuix-.30, 1915 1, 397 



VISITORS. 



The number of visitors to the park during the year, as determined 

 by count and estimate, was 794,530, a daily average of 2,176. This 

 was the largest year's attendance in the history of the park. The 

 greatest number in any one month was 153,452 in April, 1915, an 

 average per day of 5,115. 



Sixty-two schools, classes, etc., visited the park, with a total of 

 3,485 individuals. 



IMPROVEMENTS. 



A cage for pumas was built near the lion house. Tlie cage is 

 22 by 28 feet, 10 feet high, and attached to it is a well-built shelter 

 house, which provides four compartments for the animals and ample 

 space for the keeper in caring for them. 



In order to provide for keeping a band of rhesus monkeys out of 

 doors throughout the year, a small shelter house with thick wooden 

 walls was built and connected with it a yard 25 feet square. Twenty- 

 five monkej^s were placed there in October; all came through the 

 winter in good shape except one, which Avas taken out as it appeared 

 to suffer from the cold. 



A new machine lathe was added to the shop equipment, replacing 

 one of inferior type which had been in use since the early years of 

 the park. A tool grinder and power hack saw were also installed and 

 overhead equipment of shafting and pulleys arranged for the several 

 machines. A food chopper and bone grinder, with motor for driving 

 them, were put in at the food house. 



For the convenience of the increasing number of people who enter 

 at the south end of the park, a foot bridge was constructed there 

 across the creek. A small rustic shelter was also built near the new 

 stone bridge. 



