REPORT 
OF THE 
Board of Directors. 
Philadelphia, April 24th, 1890. 
J^HE Board of Directors of the Zoological Society of Phil- 
^ adelphia submit to the members and loan-certificate 
holders this their Eighteenth Annual Report of the busi- 
ness and operations of the Society from 1st of March, 1889^ 
to 1st of March, 1890. 
The number of members on the 1st of March, 1890, was — 
Total members (exclusive of loan-holders) 1,883 
The Board of Directors again call the attention of all 
those interested not onl}' in the welfare but in the exist- 
ence of the Garden, to the continued efforts made to retire 
the loan of the Society. Voluntar}^ gifts of this loan, or its 
conversion into life and perpetual memberships, would re- 
move from the Society all probable danger of financial 
Members. 
Annual members . . . 
Life members .... 
Corresponding members 
Honorary members . . 
Perpetual members . , 
450 
1,156 
13. 
257 
