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TION FOR 1930 
Dr. C. Stuart GAGER, DIREcTOR. 
Sir: I take pleasure in submitting herewith my report for the 
year ending December 31, 1930. 
Garden Attendance 
The registration figures at the seven entrance gates totalled a 
somewhat lower figure than last year (Table III). The figures 
were lower than those of last year for every month with the ex- 
ceptions of April—r1io,147 as against 97,612 of April 1929, and 
November, 53,743 as against 53,254 of last year. However, the 
falling off may not be as great as appears on the surface; in fact 
the total number of adult visitors and of children accompanied by 
responsible adults may be in reality as great or even greater than 
that of last year. For early in 1930 guards were stationed at all 
the entrance gates with instructions not to admit young children 
inaccompanied by responsible adults. This action had become 
imperative on account of the continued vandalism of groups of 
young children (chiefly boys) who ranged up and down the 
plantations trampling on the plants, throwing various objects at 
the fish in the lily pools and otherwise disturbing them; catching, 
or trying to catch the frogs in the Japanese Garden lake, etc.; and 
behaving themselves in general as if the Garden were an area of 
wild land for exploitation or collection rather than a valuable 
assemblage of living plants for exhibition purposes. Repeated 
warnings and scoldings had been of no avail, and it was physically 
unpossible for the one or two policemen detailed to Garden service 
to cover the whole territory at once. Ilence the installation of 
guards at the entrance gates. It is interesting to note that the 
number of visitors to the conservatories increased from 32,880 in 
1929 to 40,093 in 1930. This in itself is a strong indication that 
the number of genuinely interested visitors to the Garden really 
increased last year. 
