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vious Reports. The last remaining portions of the work, 
embracing the ponds, yards, and fences, were finished last 
year; and the building, which may be now considered com- 
plete, answers its design in every way. 
The expenditure on the new Elephant-house, up to the 
end of 1869, was £4032 1s. 3d. In the year 1870 the 
further sum of £2324 6s, 2d. was spent upon it, raising 
the entire cost of the building, inclusive of the yards, 
ponds, fences, terrace-walk in front, and rearrangement of 
the adjoining grounds, to £6356 7s. 5d. 
Besides this the sum of £307 Os. 9d. was devoted out of 
extraordinary expenditure of 1870 to the completion of the 
new Refreshment-room, and £323 to the further extension 
of the hot-water heating-apparatus in different parts of the 
Garden establishment. This raised the total expenditure 
of 1870 on new buildings and works in the Society’s 
Gardens to a little over £3040. 
The next new work to be proceeded with is the bridge 
over the Regent’s Park canal, to connect the Society’s 
grounds on the north bank with the present Gardens. 
The plans for this bridge are already determined upon, 
and the works will be commenced very shortly, 
2. VISITORS. 
The total number of visitors to the Society’s Gardens 
during the year 1870 was 573,004, being 156 more than 
the corresponding number in 1869, as will be seen by the 
following Table :— 
| 
1869. 1870. | Comparison. 
Fellows and Friends ..........cecesessssease 168,062 | 156,882 | Decr. 11,180 
On ordinary days at 1s.each | 123,321 | 124,832 | Incr. 1,511 
On Mondays and other days 45 
Paying at 6d..eaeh 2.508 Lee vecce sss \ 232,721 | 242,381 | Incr. 9,660 
Children under 12 years at - g ; 5 
fidlceacks at poten. f ma. | 95,245 | 36,152 | Incr. 907 
Charity Children and others having ; > % 
ICES AA UTISSION " ssecesecanareesesescas | BaVAgD Icha OH) | Deer. oe] 742 
pees 573,004 | Incr. 156 
The only year in which the entrances have been more 
numerous (excepting the two Exhibition years of 1851 and 
