REPORT 
OF THE 
Board of Directors. 
Philadelphia, April 22d, 1886. 
/gTHE Board of Directors of the Zoological Society of Phila- 
delphia, submit to the members and loan-certificate 
holders this, their Fourteenth Annual Report of the busi- 
ness and operations of the Society from 1st of March, 1885, 
to 1st of March, 1886. 
The number of members on the 1st of March, 1886, was— 
Total members (exclusive of loan-holders), . . 366 
The total number of loan-holders is 458, holding $319,900 
loan. 
This apparently large falling off of membership from last 
year is due to the fact that for some years many members 
have been in arrears of dues. After an energetic effort had 
been made to collect these dues, it was decided to strike 
from the list the names of all those who were not entitled to 
membership. 
At a meeting of the Board of Directors, held on October 
22d of last year, it was decided to call a special meeting on 
Members. 
Annual members, . . . 
Life members, . . . .. . 
Corresponding members, 
Honorary members, . . 
163 
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