JUN 9 1900 
REPORT 
OF THE 
Board of Directors. 
Philadelphia, April 26th, 1900. 
The Board of Directors of the Zoological Society of Phil- 
adelphia present to the members and loanholders their 
twenty-eighth annual report of the operations of the So- 
ciety for the year ending on the 28th of February, 1900. 
General Affairs and Finances. 
The number of members on the 1st of March, 1900, was — 
Annual members 297 
Life members 1,328 
Corresponding members 9 
Honorary members 21 
Perpetual members 261 • 
Total members (exclusive of loanholders) . . . 1,916 
The following is a report in detail of the admissions and 
receipts for the year : — 
Adults (paying at gates) 131,928 
Children (paying at gates) 38,057 
Members (including Life and Annual Members, 
loanholders' annual, and complimentary annual 
tickets) 2,159 
Loanholders' single tickets 13,559 
Free admissions (charitable institutions, donors' 
tickets, &c.)* 3,605 
Members of the Grand Army of the Republic, by 
special invitation 5,364 
Coupon tickets 400 
Excursion tickets 7,442 
202,514 
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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