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MISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN 



DIAGRAM B 



rilKCIPITATION. 



VISITORS, 



The total number of persons who visited the Garden in 

 1904 is 316,747. Of these, 25,446 were recorded for the 

 first Sunday afternoon in June, and 33,690 for the first 

 Sunday afternoon in September, the remaining 257,611 

 being week-day visitors. 



As was to be expected, this number greatly exceeds that 

 for any preceding year (the highest earlier total record 

 for 1902 — being 112,314), owing to the large number of 

 strangers drawn to St. Louis by the Louisiana Purchase 

 Exposition. The week-day number represents a little more 

 than 2 per cent, of the entire paid admissions to the Expo- 

 sition as reported by the daily press (12,804,616), from 

 which it may be inferred, perhaps, that about one in ten 



