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The Auditors have extreme pleasure in congratulating the 
Society on the continued improvement of the finances, the 
Income being little short of £9000 more, and the Liabilities 
nearly £400 less, than they were at the end of the year 1861, 
and the total Receipts exceeding the total Payments by the 
sum of £8683 15s. 3d., while proof of increased interest in 
the Society’s objects and belief in its stability is given by the 
fact, that the number of Compounders is double that of the 
preceding year. The total Receipts in the year 1862 were 
£27,397 5s. 6d., exceeding those of 1861 by £11,325 Os. 9d., 
no less a sum than £20,707 16s. having been derived from 
admissions to the Gardens. 
It is not only when compared with the results of 1861 that 
the Society’s present position appears favourable, but the 
same is the case when comparison is made with those of any 
preceding year, as in the hitherto most favourable season of 
1851, when the Great Exhibition was much nearer, and the 
rival attractions at Sydenham, Battersea, and elsewhere did 
not exist, the number of Visitors to the Gardens was 667,243, 
and the Income of the Society £26,452 19s. 11d., whereas in 
1862 the number of Visitors was 682,205, and the Income, 
as above stated, amounted to nearly £1000 more than in that 
favoured year. 
In whatever light the condition of the Society is viewed, 
whether as to its present position, as to the interest taken by 
the Public in its objects, or as regards its future prospects, 
your Committee see cause for perfect satisfaction. 
. In concluding their Report, the Auditors beg to assure the 
Society of their entire concurrence with the opinion frequently 
expressed by their predecessors, as to the clear manner in 
which Mr. Leigh has arranged the accounts laid before them. 
EDW. GREENAWAY. 
EDWARD JOHNSTONE. 
WILLIAM MARTYN. 
ROBERT LOW. 
JOHN ALGER. 
JAMES TENNANT. 
R? HENRY S, VYVYAN. 
11 Hanover Square, 
February 24, 1868. 
