60 ANNUAL EEPOET SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, 1909. 



Purchases included a pair of Rocky Mountain sheep, an Arabian camel, a 

 reindeer from Alaska, a cassowary, 2 South American condors, 2 jabirus, etc. 



Births numbered 110, and included a Brazilian tapir, 3 American bison, a 

 yak, 4 tigers, 2 black bears, a llama, 6 Barbary sheep, 17 deer of 6 species, 

 kangaroos, armadillos, etc., also various birds. 



The deaths included the Philippine water buffalo, which died from peri- 

 tonitis resulting from the bursting of an abscess of the rumen; a young orang, 

 which died from leukemia ; and a leopard, which, also, died from peritonitis. 

 A Rocky Mountain goat, which was deposited in the park, died thirty-seven 

 days after its receipt, from tuberculosis, which evidently had been contracted 

 while it was kept in confinement near the place of capture in British Columbia. 

 An European flamingo, a crowned pigeon, and several other birds died from 

 aspergillosis, and five storks from cercomonad roup. 



One hundred and thirty-eight autopsies were made by the pathologists of the 

 Bureau of Animal Industry and two by the Laboratory of Hygiene, which gave 

 the following results: 



Cause of death, 1908-9. 



Pneumonia 20 Ilydrophilosis 1 



Tuberculosis 16 Subcutaneous acariasis 1 



Pulmonary congestion 8 Uncinariasis 2 



Aspergillosis 6 Proteus bacillosis 3 



Enteritis (and gastro-enteritis).-- 20 Echinococcosis 1 



Nephritis 6 Porocephalus infestation 2 



Necrosis of liver 2 Rabies 3 



Hepatitis 1 Myofibroma 1 



Parenchymatous degeneration of Goiter 1 



liver 1 Osteomalacia 2 



Fatty degeneration of liver 1 Impaction of bowel 3 



Peritonitis 5 Impaction of crop 1 



Pericarditis 2 Urinary concretions in cloaca 1 



Fatty degeneration of heart and Broken egg in cloaca 1 



liver 1 Starvation : 5 



Valvular obstruction of heart 1 Starvation resulting from cystic 



Septicemia 1 tumor in throat 1 



Leukemia 1 Stillborn 4 



Cercomonad roup 4 Accident 7 



Infectious entero-hepatitis 1 No cause found 2 



Coccidial typhlitis 1 



The number of visitors to the park during the year was 564,639. a daily 

 average of about 1,547. The largest number in any month was 127,635, in April, 

 1909, a daily average of 4,254. 



During the year there visited the park 148 schools. Sunday schools, classes, 

 etc., with 4,611 pupils, a monthly average of 3S4 pupils. While most of them 

 were from the city and the immediate vicinity, 25 of the schools were from 

 neighboring States, and classes came from Lowell, Warren, Boston, Fall River, 

 and Dover, Mass. ; Portland, Augusta, and Auburn, Me. ; and Wallingford-, Vt. 



NEEDS OF THE PARK. 



Aquarium. — The present building was originally a hay shed of ordinary Vir- 

 ginia pine lumber. It is now in a most dilapidated condition, the foundation 



