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1833 the number was 21 1,343. The total number of visits 

 made by Members and their friends in 1834 exceeded those 

 of 1833 by 5428. 



The Money received from Strangers for Admission to the 

 Gardens during the past year amounted to £7545 Is. In 

 the pi-eceding year the receipts were £7954 9s. 



The 



Increase in the Gardens, 



referred to in the last Annual Report, has since been effected 

 by the acquisition, at the yearly rent of six Guineas per acre, 

 of ten acres of pasturage ground along the south-western 

 verge of the South Garden. The separation of this land from 

 the adjoining pasturage in the Regent's Park by a high 

 strained wire fence has been one of the 



Works 

 of the year which is just concluded ; and another has been 

 the planting of a strong hedge and the setting up of a fence 

 along the eastern boundary of the South Garden, which may 

 now be approached by the public. The recent opening to the 

 public, by the Commissioners of His Majesty's Woods, &c., 

 of the adjoining Mall will, however, it is hoped, be produc- 

 tive of an additional convenience to the Visitors of the Gar- 

 dens, by allowing of an Exit Gate being made near the 

 south-eastern angle. 



A third work of utility, completed at the commencement 

 of the present year, has been the formation of a system of deep 

 drainage for the greater part of the South Garden, — a drain- 

 age which could not be adequately effected on the first oc- 

 cupation of that ground on account of the want of a sufficient 

 fall. 



Another work of importance, both with reference to the 

 security to be afforded by it, and to the saving of ex- 

 penditure which it is likely to lead to by diminishing the 



