REPORT 
OF THE 
BOARD OF DIRECTORS. 
Philadelphia, April 22d, 1880. 
The Board of Directors of the Zoological Society of Philadel- 
phia submit to the members and loan-certificate holders this 
their Eighth Annual Report of the business and operations of 
the Society, from 1st of March, 1879, to 1st of March, 1880. 
MEMBERS. 
The number of members on the 1st of March, 1880, was- — 
Annual Members, ...... 652 
Life Members, .188 
Corresponding Members, ..... 9 
Honorary Members, . . . . . .15 
Total Members (exclusive of loan-holders), . 864 
Decrease, by death or resignation, from preceding year, of 
seventy-eight Annual Members and an increase of one Honorary 
Member by the election of Dr. Elliott Coues, U. S. A., of the 
Smithsonian Institution. 
The number of loan-holders is four hundred and eighty- 
eight. 
VISITORS. 
The number of visitors to our Garden has not, this year, 
equaled the expectations of the Directors, there having been 
a decrease from the preceding year of sixty-four thousand six 
hundred and five. Notwithstanding this, so great economy has 
been exercised in the management of the business of the Society, 
that the average daily receipts have exceeded the average daily 
expenses by over $20 a day. Additional means of access to the 
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