will be found susceptible of still more considerable im- 

 provement. 



The characteristic increase which has had so important 

 an eifect upon the finances of the Society is however to 

 be found in the sums contributed by the public fob 

 ADMISSION TO THE GARDENS. The sum of £10,462 9s. 

 having been derived from this source presents the remark- 

 able increase of £5810 19^. over the receipts of 1849, and 

 of £6935 18;?. 6d. over those of 1847, Mhich were the 

 smallest ever taken, while it is only exceeded by those of 

 1831 (£11,425), which are the largest. 



As the receipts of the current year from the 1st of Ja- 

 nuary, notwithstanding the unfavourable weather in March, 

 already exceed those of the corresponding period of 1850 

 by £262, it is confidently hoped that the flourishing con- 

 dition of the Institution is now so extensively known, and 

 public interest so thoroughly awakened in its favour, that 

 this source of income is preserved from the adverse fliJc- 

 tuations which had formerly influence over it. 



The total number of Visitors to the Gardens in 1850 

 was 360,402, viz. : 



Privileged 59,575 



rOn ordinary days, at 1^. each . 117,672 

 p . ^J On Mondays, at 6d. each . . 160,496 



^ ° I Children under 12 years of age 



L at 6cf 22,659 



300,827 



360,402 

 The increase in the number of Visitors, as compared 

 with 1849, was 191,507, as seen by the following state- 

 ment : — 



