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the yard, however, new and stronger fencing was consi- 
dered to be absolutely necessary, and the sum of £373 was 
devoted to this purpose out of the extraordinary expendi- 
ture of last year. 
Besides these principal works, other smaller additions 
to the Garden Establishment, as stated in the Table given 
above, raised the amount expended on the permanent im- 
provement of the Society’s Gardens during the year 1866 
to the total of £2228 17s. 3d. 
2, VISITORS. 
The total number of visitors to the Gardens in the year 
1866 was 527,349, being 2173 more than in the year 1865. 
They are divisible into the following categories. 
| 1865. | 1866. ‘Comparison. 
| | 
| Fellows and Friends ...........seessseeeeses | 111,225 | 127,616 lIner. 16,391) 
{ On ordinary days at 1s. each | 116,469 | 107,417 \Decr. 9,052 
{ | 
On Mondays and other days ro ys m9 741 | : 
Paying 4 abiGd. each s.t.a duaecdasne } 253,171 252,421 (Deer. aan 
| chi 
; Children under 12 years at | EB Bj 
' W) sd TEAC eres! dee- meric. aes f| ergy | 29,344 incr.” Tes 
Charity Children and others having ] | 2 | - 
APES ACMISSION | Jove accavents decent S| be tee yal Beas 
| 525,176 | 527,349 |Incr. 2,173 
| | ; 
On Whit-Monday in 1866 the number of visitors to 
the Gardens were no less than 36.597, and the money taken 
at the gates amounted to £912 13s., being the largest sum 
ever received in any one day since the Gardens have been 
opened to the public. 
The following Table gives the number of visitors to the 
Society’s Gardens in each year since they were first opened. 
{¢ will be observed that for the last four years the average 
number of entrances has exceeded half a million, and that 
there were a greater number of entrances in 1866 than 
in any of the preceding years, except the two Exhibition 
years. 
