REPORT 
OF TIIK 
Board of Directors. 
Philadelphia, April 22d, 1897. 
The Board of Directors of the Zoological Society of Phil- 
.^idelphia submit to the members and loan-certificate 
holders their twenty-fifth Annual Report of the opera- 
tions of the Society during the year ending 28th February, 
1897. 
General Affairs and Finances. 
The number of members on the 1st of March, 1897 was — 
Annual members 370 
Life members 1,334 
•Corresponding members 9 
Honorary members 21 
Perpetual members 261 
Total members (exclusive of loanholders) . . . 1,995 
The following is a report in detail of the admissions and 
receipts for the year: — 
Adults (paying at gates) 111,878 
<2!hildren (paying at gates) 39,572 
Members (including Life and Annual Members, 
loanholders' annual, and complimentary annual 
tickets) 1,607 
Loanholders' single tickets 8,848 
Free admissions (charitable institutions, donors' 
tickets, &c.)* 2,763 
•Coupon tickets 346 
Excursion tickets 8,616 
173,630 
*In addition to these, 50,000 tickets were issued to the Board of 
Education, for the admission of pupils of the Public Schools. 
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