Enumeration of Visitors 
to the Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh, 
during the Years 1889-1900. 
ON the ist of April, 1889, the control of the Royal Botanic 
Garden, Edinburgh, was vested in the Commissioners of Her 
Majesty’s Works, and the Garden, like the Royal Gardens at 
Kew, became subject to the “ Act for the Regulation of the 
Royal Parks and Gardens, 1872.” From the date specified the 
Garden was opened to the public on Sundays, and was also 
opened for an extended period on Week-days. The subjoined 
table shows the number of visitors to the Garden on Sundays 
and Week-days respectively during the eleven years which have 
elapsed since the Garden was transferred to the Commissioners 
-of Her Majesty’s Works :— 
Least 
Vouk Total in Total on Most on ae ae Wee on 
Year. Sundays. | Sunday. Sunday.| Days. Day. bi hee 
y- 
1889 | 368,219 | 187,457 | 13,93 129 180,762 | 3,834 | 50 
1890 | 446,540 | 216,345 11,208 QI 230,195 | 4,032 | 65 
1891 J 454,083 1543 | 9,445 340 »54 3,228 | 76 
1892 | 437,205 | 218,233 | 13,581 149 218,972 | 2,666) 43 
1893 | 531,232 | 271,893 | 12,860 45 259,339 | 3,197 | 40 
1894 | 526,948 | 268,793 | 13,515 68 258,155 | 35153 28 
1895 | 516, 264, 15,227 127 252,111 5292 26 
1896 | 516,407 | 296,576 | 13,517 | 527 219,831 | 3,825 | 30 
1897 | 475,210 | 271,730 | 16,001 74 203,480 | 3,153 | 20 
1893 } 443,289 | 258,499 | 12,840) 123 184,790 | 3,234 | 39 
1899 461, 59.424 | 15,161 105 202,262 758 30 
1900 | 561,359 | 324,856 | 17,7 268 236,503 | 3,667) 53 
5> 738, 786 3,058,846 2,679,940 | aa 
* Numbers in this year for nine months only. 
