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Reptiles,

Received as gifts   25
Purchased  1 
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Total 26

Number of species represented,

Mammals  30
Birds  28
Reptiles 10 
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Total  68

Total number of specimens 172
Number received as gifts 123
Number purchased 38

It is worthy of note that of all the specimens not bred in the menagerie, more than three times as many were received by gift as it was necessary to purchase.  Furthermore, of the 123 specimens received by presentation,about three-fourths were offered voluntarily, and without either suggestion or personal solicitation from the curator.  The actual cash value of all the gifts is at least six times that all of all the specimens purchased.