96 ANNUAL REPORT SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, 1921. 



STATEMENT OF THE COLLECTION. 



Accessions during the year. 



Presented , 



Born and hatched in National Zoological Park 



Received in exchange 



Purchased 



Transferred from other Government departments. 



Captured in National Zoological Park 



Deposited 



Total. 



Mammals 



235 



Birds. 



73 



21 



152 



45 



2 



5 



307 



Reptiles. 



53 



Totals. 



178 

 76 



215 



63 



64 



7 



10 



613 



SUMMARY. 



Animals on hand July 1, 1920 1,427 



Accessions during the year 613 



Total animals handled 2,040 



Deduct loss (by exchange, death, and return of animals on deposit) 495 



Animals on hand June 30, 1921 1,545 



This is a gain in the collection of 59 species and 118 individuals 

 over the total for June 30, 1920. The number of species shown is 

 greater than ever before in the history of the park. 



VISITORS. 



For the second time the official attendance records exceed 2,000,000. 

 The total number of visitors to the park for the fiscal year, as deter- 

 mined by count and estimate, was 2,400,837, a gain of 171,232 over 

 the record of last year. The greatest attendance in any one month 

 was 390,988, in March, 1921, an average per day of 12,612. 



The attendance by months was as follows: In 1920 — July, l72,5vjj; 

 August, 211,600; September, 190,900; October, 323,150; November, 

 104,548; December," 78,050. In 1921— January, 171,776; February, 

 103,375 ; March, 390,988 ; April, 193,975 ; May, 276,475 ; June, 183,500. 



One hundred and twenty-four schools and classes, with a total of 

 13,629 individuals, visited the park during the year. The number 

 is greatly in excess of previous years, which have shown a steady 

 increase. The American Ornithologists' Union, then in convention 



