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XI.— MONTHLY SUMMARY. 



March 1, 1862. 

 Admission to the Gardens, — la the view of the great influx 



of Fellows now swelling the numbers of the Society, and of the 

 multitude of visitors to the Garden which may be expected during 

 the period of the Intez'national Exhibition, the Council have felt 

 constrained to make a somewhat important alteration in the 

 formula of admission to the Garden. It is felt that to require 

 every Fellow lo sign his name on entering the Garden during this 

 pressure will be impracticable, or if not absolutely impracticable, 

 at least so inconvenient to the Fellows themselves, that it is the 

 ^ duty of the Council to make some effort to relieve them from it. 

 They have resolved, therefore, for tlie present year, to issue to 

 each Fellow a non-transferahle ticket, on exhibiting which he 

 will be passed without signing his name except when called on. 



The ticket ^Yill have a vacant space on which the Fellow must 

 have signed his name before it is presented, It will also be 

 necessary for him to sign his name in a book, if called upon to 

 do so, but not otherwise. Should any Fellow allow his non- 

 transferable ticket to be used by another, it will be forfeited, 

 and the Council will take such other steps in the matter as 

 circumstances may require. 



The privilege of introducing friends is limited to two each day 

 for each Fellow and each Fellow's transferable card, and they feel 

 certain that this number will in no case be exceeded ; it will also 

 be kept in view that this privilege can only be exercised at the 

 outer entrances of the Garden ; namely, at the present entrance, 

 and at the temporary entrance now making from Kensington 

 Gore. A Fellow may bring in his two friends to the Garden, 

 but if they are passed, by payment at the door, or by Season 

 Ticket, from the Garden into the Exhibition building, they will 

 be understood to have left the Garden, and cannot return 

 through it except by further payment. This is necessary from 

 the arrangements of the Commissioners of 1802, which allow no 

 person to pass any of their doors except by payment or production 



of a ticket, 



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