REPORT 
OF TUE 
Board of Directors. 
Philadelphia, April 22nd, 1909. 
The Board of Directors of the Zoological Society of Phila- 
delphia presents to the members and loanholders its thirty- 
seventh annual report, for the year ending February 28th, 
1909. 
General Affairs and Finances. 
The number of members at the dose of the year was: — 
Annual members 202 
Life members 1,284 
Corresponding members 6 
Honorary members 14 
Perpetual members 250 
Junior members 56 
Total members 1,812 
The following is a report in detail of the admissions and 
receipts for the year: — 
Adults (paying at gates) 120,619 
Children (paying at gates) 35,397 
Members (including life and annual members, loan- 
holders’ annual, and complimentary annual tickets) 941 
Loanholders’ single tickets 9,706 
Free admissions (charitable institutions, donors’ 
tickets, &c.)* 4,455 
Coupon tickets 295 
Excursion tickets 3,417 
174,830 
* In addition to these, 175,000 tickets were issued to the Board of 
Education, for the admission of piipils of the Public Schools. 
