22 MISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN. 
open Sunday afternoon in June, and 10,692 for that in 
September, leaving 57,831 for the week-days of the year. 
The total for the year has been exceeded twice since 
records have been kept: in 1901, when 91,262 visitors 
were reported, and in 1902, when 112,314 were counted. 
In each of these years the visitors on the two Sunday 
afternoons when, under Mr. Shaw’s will, the Garden 1s 
opened, were nearly twice as numerous as in 1903. The 
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VISITORS ON WEEK-DAYS. 
number of week-day visitors has been passed once, in 1902, 
when an unusual interest in the Garden was aroused in 
May,* but except for that year it is greater than shown 
by any other record. 
The distribution of week-day visitors through the season 
is indicated on the accompanying diagram, on which, for 
comparison, are placed the curve for 1902 and the average 
* Rept. Mo. Bot. Gard. 14¢ 17. 
