Members ; and the Candidates already elected and pro- 

 posed for election during the current year are sufficiently 

 numerous to remove all anxiety for the result of the ensuing 

 twelvemonths, 



2. Finances. 



a. Income. 



The gross Income of 1854 must be considered as ex- 

 ceedingly favourable, considering the disadvantageous cir- 

 cumstances of sickness under which the metropolis laboured 

 during the months of June, July, August and September 

 last ; for notwithstanding the comparative decrease which 

 took place in the Garden Receipts from the 1st of June to 

 the middle of August, the income of the year reached 

 ;616,901 11*. 9</., presenting a deci'ease of only £606 

 16*. 9c?., as compared with the very successful year of 

 1853, and far exceeding the seven preceding years, with 

 the exception of 1851. 



The actual decrease at the Garden Gates only amounted 

 to £544 2s., a sum which has more than once been 

 obtained on a single day ; and the gross receipts having 

 been £10,798 \9s. 6d., the year 1854 was only second in 

 this respect to 1851, 1831 and 1853, as will be seen by 

 the following 



Table of Receipts for Admission to the Gardens from their first 

 Oldening to the Public in 1828. 



The largest item of decrease was under the head of 

 Garden Sales, by which there was realized £330 As. 9d, 



