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During the year 9 members have resigned, 2 have died, 
and 4 have been transferred from annual to life members. 
Gen. John Eaton, of the Department of the Interior, 
Washington, D. C, and Mr. William A. Conklin, of the 
New York Central Park Menagerie, have been elected corres- 
ponding members, and Prof. E. £>. Cope, and Mrs. Jacob 
Armbruster, of Philadelphia, were elected honorary mem- 
bers. The number of loan holders is 237. 
VISITORS. 
The number of visitors to the Society's Garden, has ex- 
ceeded the most sanguine expectations of its friends. Although 
the grounds were hardly in a condition to receive the public, 
and although the number of animals then in the Garden, 
was comparatively meagre, yet the Board, as stated in their 
last Report, thought it advisable not to deny to the pub- 
lic, during the season of 1874, whatever attractions 
it then possessed. The result has more than justified 
the wisdom of this policy. The Garden was opened 
to the public on the 1st of July, 1874, and from that 
date to the 1st of March 1875, a period of eight months, the 
number of admissions to the Garden has been 227,557. A 
result unparalleled, it is believed, in the history of similar 
institutions. It largely exceeds the whole number of ad- 
missions for the whole twelve months, in each year, of every 
year from the year 1828, the time of its opening, to the year 
1850, (except the years 1831 and 1836,) of the most success- 
ful foreign Garden, that of the London Zoological Society, 
situated in a city having, during that time, a population rang- 
ing from 1,500,000, to over 2,000,000, and perhaps the 
largest floating population of visitors of any city in the 
world. These figures prove beyond a doubt, for how great a 
public want this Society has provided, and how assured is its 
future, as a financial success, and a permanent attraction to 
the city. 
So far, the means of access to the Garden have been lim- 
ited. Except in the summer months, by means of the Steam- 
boats on the Schuylkill river, visitors have been obliged to 
walk a short distance to its gates. This, affecting seriously 
women and children, has doubtless operated against our in- 
