66 NEW YORK ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY 



Sterling Yard, of the National Parks Service, and Mr. Horace M. 

 Albright, Superintendent of the Yellowstone National Park, un- 

 der the direction of the Secretary of the Interior, Hon. Albert 

 B. Fall. 



ATTENDANCE. 



The popularity of any institution that maintains exhibits 

 for the public to see is definitely established by its annual at- 

 tendance of visitors. The records for the past two years at the 

 Zoological Park are as follows: 



1921 1920 



January 120,305 47,024 



February 83,317 37,485 



March 213,394 112,658 



April 242,168 187,748 



May 433,027 366,024 



June 306,332 241,995 



July 316,633 299,409 



August 271,370 259,831 



September 237,936 288,666 



October 192,767 239,941 



November 81,758 92,096 



December 63,131 77,300 



2,562,138 2,250,177 



Increase during 1921, 311,961. 



MUSEUM OF HEADS AND HORNS. 



Early in 1916 it was found that the National Collection of 

 Heads and Horns had increased to such fine proportions as to be 

 worthy of a special building. The masses of Park visitors were 

 known to be very anxious to see the specimens that had been 

 gathered from all quarters of the globe, and the Society became 

 desirous of placing them upon exhibition in a museum building 

 of the most modern type. 



Recognizing the impossibility of securing from the city the 

 funds necessary for a suitable building, the Society decided to 



