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The subjoined Table contains a statement of the 

 Number of Visitors to the Society's Gardens during each 

 year, from the year 1828 to the year 1884. 



Number of Visitors to the Gardens, 1828-84. 



* Tear of the Great Exhibition. 



t Year of the International Exhibition. 



I Tear of the exhibition of the Prince 



of Wales's Indian Menagerie. 



4. Prosector's Department. 



Mr. F. E. Beddard, the Prosector to the Society, reports 

 that the number of deaths in the Menagerie during the 

 present year %vas 1102, being an increase of 46 upon last 

 year. 



Among the more important deaths are noticed : — a 



