head of Income for the year 1859. This increase is due, 

 the Council are happy to state, to the augmentation of 

 nearly every branch of the Society's Receipts, — the only 

 noticeable head under which there is a falling-off — that of 

 Museum Sales — being in arrear from the simple fact that 

 the last remnants of that portion of their former establish- 

 ment are now nearly exhausted. The great item of in- 

 crease, however, has been in the Garden Receipts. The 

 favourable weather at Whitsuntide 1859 attracted a large 

 number of Visitors to the Gardens ; and on the Monday of 

 that week no less than 22,261 people were admitted within 

 the gates, being, with one exception, the largest number of 

 entrances which have ever taken place in one day. 



The whole number of entrances to the Gardens for the 

 year 1859 was 364,356 — giving an average of nearly 1000 

 visitors a day ; and the money received for entrances was 

 £9389, being £508 5s. 6d. in excess of the corresponding 

 sum for 1858. This result places the past year as, in this 

 respect, the eighth most successful in the Annals of the 

 Society since the opening of the Gardens in 1828, as the 

 following Table will show : — 



Table of Receipts for Admission to the Gardens from their 

 first opening to the Public in 1828. 



* Year of the Great Exhibition. 



I First exhibition of the Ilippopotamiis. 



t First exhibition of the Giraffes. 

 § Admission Gd. during this year. 



