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resulted more advantageously to the Society’s finances’ 
than that of the Great Exhibition, by the sum of £944. 
The annual Income of the Society during the three pre- 
vious years, 1859, 1860, 1861, has averaged rather more 
than £16,000, so that the Income of 1862 has exceeded the 
average of the three previous years by upwards of £11,000. 
As might have been expected, the principal head under 
which this large addition to the Society’s ordinary Income 
has been received is that of Garden Receipts. 
The sum realized by the admission of the public to the 
Gardens of the Society during the year 1862 was 
£20,707 16s., being nearly £11,000 more than in the 
previous year. It may be observed that this falls short of 
the amount received in the same way in 1851, when the 
corresponding sum was £22,248. But the number of 
visitors to the Gardens in 1862 was greater than in 185], 
though the money taken at the gates was less, the reason 
of this being (as will be seen by the following tables, which 
give the results of the comparison of these two years), 
mainly, the decrease in 1862 of the number of visitors 
paying 1s., and the increase in the number of privileged 
persons and of visitors paying 6d., together with the 
addition of charity-children in 1862—the practice of 
recording the number of school-children admitted gratis to 
to the Gardens not having commenced in 1851. 
Comparative Table of the numbers of Visitors to the 
Gardens in 1851 and 1862, 
Comparison with 
1851. 
1851. 1862. —_—_ 
Increase.|Decrease. 
Fellows and Friends ....,.....2+...0+5 79,022} 84,049] 5,027 | ...... 
Paying—Ordinary days at Is....... 301,706 | 242,730] ...... 58,976 
7 Mondays, &e. at 6d....... 245,801 | 306,197) 60,396 | ...... 
pa Children at 6d. ............ 40,714) 36,655) ...... 4,059 
CHAR Y- CUMARET << epecns cc fecscuno, [Leiceecce 124 41) 25745 bee 
667,243 | 682,205| 77,997 | 63,035 
63,035u)) Sad 
Increase in favour of 1862 ......... 14,962 
