7 
Average daily receipts from admissions $76 39 
The largest amount of receipts at the gates on any 
one day was on Wednesday, September 6th . . 613 95 
Total Receipts on the several days of the week, and their respective 
averages for 1899-1900. 
Rank. 
Days. 
Total Receipts. 
A-VERAGE. 
1 
$10,113 65 
$194 49 
2 
6,287 20 
120 91 
3 
2,484 68 
47 78 
4 
Thursday 
2,396 84 
46 09 
5 
Wednesday 
2,331 81 
44 00 
6 
2,182 24 
41 97 
7 
2,085 74 
40 11 
$27,882 16 
It is to be noted that there has been a satisfactory gain in 
the receipts from admissions, which, as shown by the 
monthly record, has been distributed with some evenness 
throughout the year; the exceptionally large increase, 
amounting to $2862.38 in the month of September, having 
been in part owing to the large number of strangers drawn 
to the city during the week of the Encampment of the 
Grand Army of the Republic. 
The Board refers with sorrow to the death, on April 3d, 
of Dr. William Camac, who was, in a sense more than ordi- 
narily exact, the founder of this Society. 
It is now nearly forty-five years since a study of the 
Zoological Gardens existing in Europe suggested to Dr. 
Camac, then, as always, deeply interested in the natural 
sciences, the thought of establishing one of like kind in his 
native city. The earliest result of his efforts in this direc- 
tion was the granting of the Society's charter in 1859, and 
in the organization then effected he became its first Presi- 
dent. For various reasons the realization of his desires 
