REPORT 
OF THE 
Board of Directors. 
Philadelphia, April 28th, 1898. 
The Board of Directors of the Zoological Society of Phil- 
adelphia submit to the members and loan-certificate holders 
their twenty-sixth annual report of the operations of the 
Society for the year ending on the 28th of February, 1898. 
General Affaiks and Finances. 
The number of members on the 1st of March, 1898, was — 
Annual members 360 
Life members 1,330 
Corresponding members . . . . ..... 9 
Honorary members 21 
Perpetual members 261 
Total members (exclusive of loanholders) . . . 1,981 
The following is a report in detail of the admissions and 
receipts for the year : — 
Adults (paying at gates) 112,891 
Children (paying at gates) 40,328 
Members (including Life and Annual Members, 
loanholders' annual, and complimentary annual 
tickets) 1,992 
Loanholders' single tickets 8,014 
Free admissions (charitable institutions, donors' 
tickets, &c.)* 3,722 
Coupon tickets 416 
Excursion tickets 6,636 
173,999 
* In addition to these, 125,000 tickets were issued to the Board of 
Education, for the admission of pupils of the Public Schools. 
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