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ATTENDANCE. 



The monthly record of attendance for 1913, 1914 and 1915 

 is as follows: 



1915 1914 1913 



January 80,606 56,268 88,195 



February 123,466 57,235 75,895 



March 105,286 77,257 127,448 



April 142,497 182,131 128,828 



May 245,483 394,154 262,474 



June 206,945 220,406 297,719 



July 233,790 277,901 233,961 



August 171,218 249,072 242,672 



September 159,617 204,206 171,371 



October 167,210 150,872 136,800 



November 98,366 107,922 104,950 



December 45,493 43,009 73,370 



Total 1,780,077 2,020,433 1,943,683 



DEPARTMENT OF MAMMALS. 

 W, T. Hornaday, Curator; Raymond L. Ditmars, Assistant Curator. 



The year 1915 may well be marked as the beginning ot 

 important losses, in the mammal collection through old age. It 

 was also marked by three tragic occurrences which involved in 

 each case the loss of a Park celebrity. 



Our unrivalled Barbary lion. Sultan, eighteen years of age, 

 acquired on October 17, 1902, and thirteen years in the Zoologi- 

 cal Park, finally became so aged and infirm that life was no 

 longer agreeable to him. In order to save him from lingering 

 long and painfully, he was chloroformed. 



Our Alaskan brown bear, Billy, born and brought to the 

 Park in 1899, met with a serious accident. Through a bad fall 

 his pelvis was so badly shattered, at the hip joint, that he in- 

 stantly became painfully crippled, and there was no possibility 

 of effecting a cure or even giving him relief through an opera- 

 tion. When it became apparent that nothing could be done 

 for him, and that life was a painful burden, the animal was 

 painlessly shot. 



