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Mr. M. T. DAawre.—We are informed that Mr. M, T. Dawe 
lately Officer-in-Charge and Superintendent of Forests in the 
Botanical, Forestry and Scientific Department, Uganda, has been 
appointed Director of Agriculture under the Macsuilace Company. 
Mr. Harry Tuomas, a member of the gardening staff of the 
Royal Botanic Gardens, has been appointed by the Secretary of 
State for India in Council, on the recommendation of Kew, a 
probationer gardener for service in India. 
Visitors during 1910.—3,546,302 visitors iy the Royal Botanic 
Gardens have been recorded during the year 1910. These figures 
show an increase of 186,081 over those of the previous year and are 
the largest numbers on record. During the ten years 1900-1909, 
20,023,749 persons have visited the gardens giving an average of 
2 ,002, 374, The t total number of visitors on Sundays during 1910 
was 1, 614,085 and on weekdays 1,932,217. 
unday visitors have increased by the large amount of 229,716 
while the number of visitors on weekdays show a decrease of 43,635 
from the figures of the previous year in spite of the fact that there 
were five Bank Holidays when as many as 424,010 persons visited 
the gardens as against 242,372 persons on the four Bank Holidays 
in 1909. 
The greatest attendance on any one day was 152,454 on Whit- 
Monday, May 16th, being nearly 40,000 more than any figures 
previously recorded for a single day. The smallest number on any 
one day was 290 on November 3rd. The largest Sunday attendance 
was 91,058 on May 15th and the smallest 251. The former figures 
are about 20,000 in excess of those recorded for ane year. 
The detailed monthly returns are given bel 
January 65,212 
February. 77,528 
arc 507,192 
i 343,437 
Ma 679,734 
June js 364,521 
Jul 383,646 
August . 562,420 
September + 270,978 
October ti sis’ .» 191,844 
November ... es peice? Si ae 
December... vs ive > 62,098 
3,546,302 
Additions : Gardens, 1910.— Additions to the collections of plants 
cultivated at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, have been made 
during the pe by exchanges with other gardens, private as well as" 
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