REPORT 
OP THE 
Board of Directors. 
Philadelphia, April 23d, 1903. 
The Board of Directors of the Zoological Society of Phil- 
adelphia presents to the members and loanholders its 
thirty-first annual report for the year ending February 
28th, 1903. 
General Affairs and Finances. 
The number of members at the close of the year was : — 
Annual members 217 
Life members 1,284 
Corresponding members 8 
Honorary members 16 
Perpetual members 259 
Junior members 67 
Total members 1,851 
The following is a report in detail of the admissions and 
receipts for the year : — 
Adults (paying at gates) 159,536 
Children (paying at gates) 49,749 
Members (including Life and Annual Members, 
loanholders' annual, and complimentary annual 
tickets) 2,266 
Loanholders' single tickets 12,988 
Free admissions (charitable institutions, donors* 
tickets, &c.)* 3,592 
Coupon tickets 204 
Excursion tickets 4,220 
232,555 
*In addition to these, 125,000 tickets were issued to the Board of 
Education, for the admission of pupils of the Public Schools. 
