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receipts of the Society are usually arranged, it will be 
found that nine out of the twelve have produced a larger 
sum than the corresponding amount for the previous year, 
and that the total decrease that has occurred upon the 
three remaining and comparatively unimportant heads has 
amounted altogether to the sum of £50 only. 
The total sum received for entrances into the Gardens in 
1860 was £10,054, being, with the exception of the year 
1851, the fifth largest amount ever received in this manner, 
and showing an increase of £665 over the favourable year 
1859. When the stormy and unseasonable weather which 
prevailed throughout the past year—such indeed as has 
hardly been experienced before since the Gardens were 
opened to the public—is considered, the flourishing state 
of their affairs, as thus evidenced, must, it is believed, 
prove to be as gratifying, as it must have been unex- 
pected, to the Society. The number of Visitors to the 
Gardens in 1860 under the different categories into which 
they are divided, was (as given in the subjoined Table) 
of— 
Visitors to the Gardens. 
1859. | 
1860. Comparison. 
Fellows and Friends .......sscesessseeees 60,362 | 62,798 | Incr. 2,436 
On ordinary days at 1s.each| 87,528 85,284"| Decr. 2,244 
| 
179,973 | 212,406 - Incr. 32,433 
On Mondays and other 
ais days at 6d. each......... 
20,543 | 19,218  Decr. 1,325 
Children under 12 years 
at. Gd. CAChisres.c..casss0e. 
Charity Children and others having 15,930 | 15,200 . Deer 
? | , . 
SPER AUIITIRSION scaesic cases dassessecsp > 750 
364,356 | 394,996 | Incr. 30,550 
| 
It will be noticed that the total number of Visitors thus 
reached to nearly 400,000 in the year, an increase of more 
than 32,000 having taken place in the numbers of the 
admittances on Mondays and holidays at 6d. per head, 
while the other classes have presented little material vari- 
ation in their aggregate numbers, 
On Whit Monday in 1860, notwithstanding that the 
weather was far from propitious, no less than 21,024 
persons paid for admission into the Society’s Gardens, and 
