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circumstances attracted a flow of visitors to the metropolis, 
has been still more successful than either of them. 
The subjoined Table shows the various sources of this 
Income, and enables a comparison of the items to be made 
with the corresponding amounts received in 1872 :— 
Income of 
Increase. | Decrease. 
Admission Fees:— 
Compositions 
Ivory Tickets .. 
Admissions to G 
| Garden Sales..... 
Rent for Refresh 
Publications ........... 
Dividends on Redu 
(ETE ee re ee aoe er 9 : 
Interest on Davis ; 
Miscellaneous .............-ccsese00+ 
126,72. 
Inerease...... 11,2 71 0 Ded. Deer. 
28,099 3 11/28,099 311! 1,371 1 7! 
It will be thus seen that the increase of the Income of 
1873 over that of the previous year was mainly due to the 
great augmentation of the receipts from the admission of 
visitors to the Society’s Gardens. The amount thus realized 
(£17,055 18s. 6d.) has never been exceeded, except in the 
two Exhibition-years above mentioned. 
The steady progress that has taken place in the amount 
thus received from the public during the past ten years is 
shown in the following Table :— 
Amounts received for Adniission to the Gardens, 1863-73. 
£ L 
ae 11,781 i oe oe 12,865 
aeroor 12,703 Tah. s-teeae 13,204 
aati 12,889 | Pegi ares VY 13,813 
foo oh. .5.. 12,428 | (pa 15,240 
i —ees . 12,840 WSIS. ee 17,055 
Tes! -L, .L 8 12,651 
b. Expenditure. 
To the Income of the year 1873 must be added the 
balance carried over to the Society’s credit from 1872. 
This amounted to £1956 6s. 4d., and raised the total sum 
available for the expenditure of 1873 to £30,055 10s. 3d. 
