FIFTEENTH ANNUAL REPORT 65 



It is a satisfaction to be able to report that the collection 

 contains a number of valuable gifts which were received from 

 English sportsmen and friends, notably Messrs. Percy Radclyffe, 

 F. C. Selous, R. A. Ward, W. Hesketh Prichard, Rowland Ward 

 and William Jamrach. The most notable accessions of the year 

 were the following : 



A white rhinoceros head from ex-President Roosevelt; Af- 

 rican elephant head, deposited by Samuel Thorne; bongo from 

 James L. Clark; New Brunswick moose from Edwin C. Kent; 

 fifty-nine-inch American elk from the Iowa State University; 

 glacier bear skin from G. Frederic Norton; barasingha deer 

 and Congo buflfalo from Frank Hart (Doylestown, Pa.), and from 

 Mr. H. Casimir deRham the following rare and choice specimens : 

 2 Astor markhor, 2 Himalayan ibex, Indian buffalo, Karelin 

 sheep, Turkestan sheep, sable antelope, barren-ground musk-ox 

 and Newfoundland caribou. 



ATTENDANCE OF VISITORS 



The attendance of visitors at the Zoological Park, as shown 

 by the turnstile records, appears below. The total shows that 

 the attendance during 1909 was increased by the Hudson-Fulton 

 Celebration to the number of about 200,000. 



1909. 1910. 



January 36,812 47,649 



February 110,095 47,679 



March 73,833 126,936 



April 137,912 103,349 



May 213,028 195,997 



June 142,846 125,705 



July 218,626 198,486 



August 225,775 169,657 



September 184,257 184,161 



October 134,459 137,423 



November 90,915 70,595 



December 46,395 33,705 



Total for the year 1,614,953 1,441,342 



DEPARTMENT OF MAMMALS 

 William T. Hornaday, Curator; Raymond I,. Ditmars, Assistant Curator. 



Notwithstanding the fact that the opening of the year 1910 

 found all our installations for mammals densely populated, and 



