REPORT 
OF THE 
Board of Directors. 
Philadelphia, 23d April, 1896. 
The Board of Directors of the Zoological Society of Phila- 
delphia submit to the members and loan-certificate holders 
their Twenty-fourth Annual Report of the operations of the 
Society covering the year ending 29th February, 1896. 
Members. 
The number of members on the 1st of March, 1896, was — 
Annual members 395 
Life members 1340 
Corresponding members 9 
Honorary members . 20 
Perpetual members 258 
Total members (exclusive of loanholders) . . 2022 
The following is a report in detail of the admissions and 
receipts for the year : — 
Adults (paying at gates) 131,629 
Children (paying at gates) 45,007 
Members (including Life and Annual Members, 
loanholders' annual, and complimentary annual 
tickets) 2,158 
Loanholders' single tickets 8,949 
Free admissions (charitable institutions, donors' 
tickets, &c.)* 2,700 
Coupon tickets 428 
Excursion tickets 12,803 
203,674 
* 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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