REPORT 
OP THE 
Board of Directors. 
Philadelphia, April 25th, 1901. 
The Board of Directors of the Zoological Society of Phil- 
adelphia submits to the members and loanholders its 
twenty-ninth annual report of the affairs of the Society 
for the year ending February 28th, 1901. 
General Affairs and Finances. 
The number of members at the close of the year was : — 
Annual members 293 
Life members 1,325 
Corresponding members . . 9 
Honorary members 21 
Perpetual members . 260 
Junior members 2 
Total members 1,910 
It has long been felt that there should be a grade of 
membership especially suited to children. To meet this 
need the Board has created a class of Junior Members, the 
conditions of which are stated in the following by-law : — 
" Junior Members shall be minors, who shall be elected by the Board 
and shall make such payment as may be fixed by the Board. Junior 
membership shall terminate when the holder becomes eighteen years of 
age; but a Junior Member may become a Life Member on payment of 
the additional sum required to equal fifty dollars." 
The single payment required of Junior Members has been 
fixed at five dollars. 
An effort has been organized to canvass the city for the 
purpose of increasing the membership in all classes, and it 
is earnestly hoped that their numbers may be brought up 
to a point which will compare more favorably than is now 
