APPENDIX B. 
To the President and Board of Directors of 
The Zoological Society: 
Gentlemen : — I beg leave to submit to you my report of 
the condition of the Menaoerie of the Society, during the 
year which closed on the 28th of February last. 
During this period, there have been added to the collection 
237 Mammals, 149 Birds, 109 Batrachians and 192 Reptiles, 
making the total number of specimens now living in the 
garden: 
434 Mammals, valued at . . $52,731 
453 Birds, valued at . . . 4,482 
58 Batrachians, 1 i j . 
no -D ^-1 r valued at . 410 
63 Reptiles, / 
Total] ,008 $67,623 
Being a decrease in numbers of 65, and an increase in value 
of $1,958, as compared with the statement of a year ago. 
The new additions to the menagerie have been somewhat 
less numerous than in former years, for the reason that the 
collection already contains a large proportion of those species 
which are most readily to be obtained, and, although the field 
from which additions are yet to be made is practically inex- 
haustible, it is to be considered that any given number of 
species hereafter placed for the first time on exhibition in the 
garden, represents a much greater outlay of time in procuring, 
and money in purchasing, than an equal number of those 
which have hitherto been received. 
Many of the additions made during the year, however, have 
been highly interesting for purposes of observation, both 
popular and scientific in its ends. 
The most noteworthy arrivals in each month have been, in 
