20 MISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN. 
The diagram marked F, cumulatively representing, in full 
line, the week-day visitors for 1901, and, in dotted line, 
the cumulative average for the previous years for which 
records exist, shows the same facts in a different form. 
The visitors on the two Sunday afternoons, not inclu- 
ded in the preceding curves, reached the number of 40,- 
330, constituting 45 per cent. of the total for the year. 
This number is much larger than usual, and has been 
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VISITORS ON WEEK DAYS— CUMULATIVE. 
approached only once, in 1895, when it was exceeded, 
43,072 persons having been counted on the two open 
Sundays of that year. The condition of the weather 
largely controls the number of visitors on these, the 
only holidays on which, under Mr. Shaw’s will, the Garden 
may be opened, and their fluctuation from year to year is 
shown on the accompanying diagram, G, by a full line, 
the average up to 1901 being shown on the same diagram 
by a horizontal dotted line. 
The customary current collections have been purchased 
for the herbarium, and 16,256 sheets of specimens were 
incorporated during the year just closed. Of these, 
6,997, valued at $349.85, were received by gift or in 
