6 
Monthly Record of Receipts from Admissions for 1912-1913 
with corresponding account for 1911-1912. 
Month 
1911-1912 
1912-1913 
Comparison 
March 
$1,186 65 
$l,o61 35 
Increase . . 
. . $374 70 
April 
1,937 95 
2,268 85 
May 
3,174 30 
3,201 55 
27 25 
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2 Q62 40 
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4 393 15 
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. . l,4oU /O 
July 
3,413 45 
3,813 10 
. . 399 65 
August 
0,0D0 ZU 
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. . 1,796 05 
September. . 
3,518 95 
4,112 90 
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. . 593 95 
October. . . . 
2,101 45 
3,617 60 
(( 
1,516 15 
November. . 
1,388 85 
1,685 35 
11 
. . 296 50 
December. . 
1,092 25 
1,336 30 
11 
. . 244 05 
January 
515 50 
1,389 00 
(( 
. . 873 50 
February. . . 
931 70 
1,206 85 
11 
. . 275 15 
$25,992 60 
$34,151 20 
Increase . 
..$8,158 60 
The year just closed was one of the most successful 
in the history of the Society. 
The attendance was much greater than that of the 
preceding year, and it is significant that there was an 
increase during every month, both in admissions and 
gate receipts, over the corresponding months of 1911 
and 1912. 
This is an unprecedented record, and, while partly 
due to favorable weather conditions, may be attributed,- 
to a much greater extent, to a number of additions to 
the menagerie of special interest to the public. 
• This increase in incom^e from admissions enabled the 
Society to erect a number of outdoor cages for native 
species and to do much other work of a permanent 
nature, as well as to make many needed repairs and re- 
placements; prominent among these were: Two large 
cages for bears of the same type as those constructed 
two years ago for the Alaska species; the enlargement 
of the Laboratory building by the addition of a second 
