REPORT 
OF THE 
Board of Directors. 
Philadelphia, April 25th, 1889. 
HE Board of Directors of the Zoological Society of Phil- 
adelphia, submit to the members and loan-certificate 
holders, this, their Seventeenth Annual Report of the busi- 
ness and operations of the Society from 1st of March, 1888, 
to 1st of March, 1889. 
Members. 
The number of members on the 1st of March, 1889, was — 
Annual members 968 
Life members 1,061 
Corresponding members 9 
Honorary members 14 
Perpetual members 220 
Total members (exclusive of loan-holders) 2,272 
Sixty-seven annual members have been added since the 
last report. 
The efforts now being made to secure the loan of the So- 
ciety are meeting with a reasonable degree of success. It 
only requires the generous assistance of the loanholders 
and of the public to obtain the entire loan before the pub- 
lication of the next annual report. 
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