18 MISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN. 
full vegetation. The total precipitation (37.3 in.), though 
extremely close to the normal (37.4 in), departed from this 
in severe droughts in March and November and in a very 
marked excess of rainfall in September and October,—the 
spring drought, in conjunction with the unusual warmth, 
affecting vegetation unfavorably, while the early fall rains 
lessened the number of visitors to the Garden. 
VISITORS. 
I am again able to report an increase in the number of 
week-day visitors, of whom 91,914 were counted at the gates. 
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WEEK-DAY VISITORS, 1910. 
Of this number, 19,377 were attracted by the display of chrys- 
anthemums, which was again made accessible to the public 
in the evening through the courtesy of Captain Robert Mc- 
Culloch in providing means of lighting the tent. Notwith- 
standing this gratifying increase in the number of week-day 
visitors, the total number for the year falls about nine thou- 
sand behind the corresponding total for 1909, because of 
stormy weather on the first Sunday in September. On the 
