REPORT 
OF THK 
Board of Directors. 
Philadelphia, April 25th, 1895. 
The Board of Directors of the Zoological Society of 
Philadelphia submit to the members and loan-certificate 
holders their Twenty-third Annual Report of the opera- 
tions of the Society for the year ending on the 28th of 
February, 1895. 
Members. 
The number of members at the close of the year was — 
Annual members 403 
Life members 1,345 
Corresponding members 9 
Honorary members 20 
Perpetual members 258 
Total 2,035 
The following is a report in detail of the admissions and 
receipts for the year : — 
Adults (paying at gates) 120,396 
Children (paying at gates) 45,969 
Members (including Life and Annual Members, 
loanholders' annual, and complimentary annual 
tickets) 1,986 
Loanholders' single tickets 10,855 
Free admissions (charitable institutions, donors' 
tickets, &c.) * 2,757 
Coupon tickets 642 
Excursion tickets 18,104 
200,709 
*In addition to these, 50,000 tickets were issued to the Board of 
Education, for the admission of pupils of the Public Schools. 
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