REPORT 
OF THE 
Board of Directors. 
Philadelphia, April 26th, 1883. 
nPHE Board of Directors of the Zoological Society of 
J- Philadelphia submit to the members and loan-cer- 
tificate holders this, their Eleventh Annual Report of the 
business and operations of the Society from 1st of March, 
1882, to 1st of March, 1883. 
Members. 
The number of members on the 1st of March, 1883, was — 
Annual members, 577 
Life members, 183 
Corresponding members, 8 
Honorary members, 15 
Total members (exclusive of loan-holders), . 783 
Decrease, by death or resignation, from preceding year, 
of twenty-seven annual and five life members. 
The total number of loan-holders is 477. 
Visitors. 
The past year shows an increase of 9439 in the number of 
visitors. The issuing of round-trip tickets in conjunction 
with the Pennsylvania Railroad has proved measurably 
successful. The number of visitors by this route will 
doubtless be increased as the people become more acquainted 
with it, and its branches to Chestnut Hill and German- 
town are established. During the past season 12,146 adults, 
and 1906 children's tickets were sold by the Pennsylvania 
Railroad for our account. 
In accordance with the views expressed by some of our 
members at the last annual meeting, the Board again tried 
the experiment of having music at the Garden during the 
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