RKPORT 
OF THE 
Board of Directors. 
Philadelphia, April 27th, 1916. 
The Board of Directors of the Zoological Society of Phila- 
delphia presents to the members and loanholders its forty- 
fourth annual report, for the year ending February 29th, 1916. 
General Affairs and Finances. 
The number of members at the close of the year was: — 
Annual members 192 
Life members 1,008 
Honorary members 11 
Perpetual memberships 246 
Junior members 41 
Total members 1,498 
The following is a report in detail of the admissions and 
receipts for the year: — 
Adults (paying at gates) 129,104 
Children (paying at gates) 41,226 
Members (including life and annual members, loan- 
holders' annual, and complimentary annual tickets) 1,382 
Loanholders' single tickets 4,794 
Free admissions (charitable institutions, donors' 
* In addition to these, 250,000 tickets were issued to the Board of 
Education, for the admission of pupils ot the Public Schools. 
tickets, &c.)*. . 
Coupon tickets. . . 
Excursion tickets 
7,998 
143 
807 
185,454 
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