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Statement of the Number of Visitor's to the Society’s Gardens 
during each Year, from the Year 1828 to the Year 1873. 
Year. Number. Year. Number. 
1828 .... 98,605 | 1852 .... 805,203 
1829 .... 189,913 t 1853. ..., 409,076 
1830 .... 223,420 | 1854 .... 407,676 
1831 :;....,202,199 | 1855 .... 315,002 
1832 .... 206,652 1856 .... 344,184 
18383 .... 211,348 1857 2.7. ‘S89/20F 
1834 .... 208,583 1858 .... 351,580 
1885 .... 210,068 1859 .... 364,356 
1836 .... 263,372 1860 .... 394,906 
ABST Ste A STS 1861 .... 381,837 
SSB. 02 ee LO LOy: | +1862 .... 682,205 
1839 .... 158,482 1863 .... 468,700 
1840 .... 141,009 1864 .... 507,169 
1841 .... 182,616 1865 .... 525,176 
1842 .... 107,459 1866 .... 527,349 
1843 .... 98,280 1867 .... 556,214 
(eat... LOLo27 1868 .... 573,186 
flere gage = CS oilin 1869 .... 572,848 
1846 .... 100,045 1870 .... 578,004 
1847 .... 93,546 1871... SOS 0N7, 
1848 .... 143,630 | 1872 .... 648,088 
1849 .... 168,895 1873 .... 713,046 
Ee : ; : : ee } Year of the International Exhibition. |- 
* Year of the Great Exhibition. 
3. ZOOLOGICAL LECTURES. 
_ The Council have long been of opinion that the instruc- 
tiveness of the Society’s collection of living animals would 
be much increased by the establishment of Lectures upon 
their classification and affinities, and upon other zoological 
subjects of a like character. There have been many diffi- 
culties to interfere with the execution of this plan. But, 
as an experiment in this direction, the Council deter- 
mined to appropriate the interest of the Davis Fund of 
1874 to the establishment of a series of Lectures upon 
Zoological Subjects, to be given in the Picture-Gallery in 
the Society’s Gardens in the Regent’s Park, on Tuesdays 
and Fridays at 5 p.m. between Easter and Whitsuntide. 
