APPENDIX B. 
To the Board of Directors of the Zoological Society, 
Gentlemen: — I have the honor to present to you my 
report of the condition of the Garden during the year end- 
ing on the twenty-eighth of February, 1883. 
During that period 423 Hving specimens were added to 
the collection ; their character, and the manner of their re- 
ceipt, being as follows : — 
Mammals : — 
Purchased, 78 
Presented, 54 
Born, 25 
— 157 
Birds : — 
Purchased, 53 
Presented, 99 
Born, 24 
— 176 
Reptiles and Batrachians : — 
Purchased, 7 
Presented, 48 
Born, 35 
— 90 
423 
The number of specimens in the Garden at the present 
time, with their valuation, is : — 
306 Mammals, valued at $38,366 
338 Birds, " " 6,054 
43 Reptiles and Batrachians, valued at . . . 291 
(14) 
$44,711 
