REPORT 
OF THE 
Board of Directors. 
Philadelphia, April 24th, 1884. 
rpHE Board of Directors of the Zoological Society of Phila- 
J- delphia, submit to the members and loan-certificate 
holders this, their Twelfth Annual Report of the business 
and operations of the Society from 1st of March, 1883, to 
1st of March, 1884. 
The number of members on the 1st of March, 1884, was — 
Total members (exclusive of loan-holders), . . 776 
Decrease, by death or resignation, from preceding year, 
of five annual and two life members. 
The total number of loan-holders is 479. 
The past year has been an uneventful one, and the Board 
has nothing of note to communicate to the Society. There 
has been a diminution in the number of visitors, as com- 
pared with the previous year, of 27,551. This is accounta- 
ble to the large number of visitors attracted to the city 
during the Bi-Centennial of the landing of Penn in October, 
1 883 ; yet a comparison with the attendance of the year 
1881-1882 shows a falling off of 18,112. 
The Board has to regret the loss during the past year of 
Dr. John L. LeConte, whose distinguished attainments had 
Members. 
Annual members, . . . 
Life members, .... 
Corresponding members, 
Honorary members, . . 
572 
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