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it is not only this class of visitors that has resorted in in- 
creased numbers to the Society’s Gardens during the year 
1864. There has, in fact, been an augmentation of num- 
bers under every head into which the returns of admission 
to the Gardens are divided. Altogether the increase of 
entrances has amounted to 38,469 over the preceding year, 
raising the grand total of visitors to 507,169, and placing 
the year 1864 as exhibiting a more favourable aspect in 
this point of view than any of the preceding years except 
the two Exhibition years. 
Visitors to the Gardens. 
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| Fellows and Friends BV Mu sestdadyaraccares 84,466 | 96,066 11,600 © 
On ordinary days at ls.each | 100,327 | 112,783 12,456 
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free admission ......... at 13,320 | HidSh eet 
- | 468,700 | 507,169 | 38,469 
The total income of the Society received in the year 
1864 was, as has been- already stated, £21,713 13s. 10d. 
To this must be added-the sum of £2043 10s. 6d., being 
the balance carried forward from the previous year, and 
the sum of £2677 10s., being the proceeds arising from 
the sale of £3000 Reduced 3 per Cents, making the total 
sum of £26,434 14s. 4d. available for the expenditure of 
ee year 1864. 
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The ordinary Expenditure of the Society paid during the 
year 1864, under which ‘head is placed every item neces- 
sary to keep the Society’s establishment in a perfect state of 
efficiency, was £17,207 10s. 7d. The Extraordinary Expen- 
diture paid during the same period amounted to £7681 
“12s. 9d., making a total Expenditure of £24,889 3s. 4d., 
and leaving a balance in the banker’s hands at the end of 
the year of £1544 9s. 6d. 
But these sums include the arrears of the year 1863, and 
