Enumeration of Visitors to the Royal Botanic 
Garden, Edinburgh, during the Years 1889-1920. 
On the Ist of April 1889, the control of the Royal Botanic 
Garden, Edinburgh, was vested in the Commissioners of His 
Majesty’s Works, and the Garden became subject to the ‘‘ Act 
for the Regulation of the Royal Parks and Gardens, 1872.” 
From the date specified the Garden has been opened to the 
public on Sundays, and also for an extended period on Week- 
days. The table below shows the number of visitors to the 
Garden on Sundays and Week-days respectively during the 
thirty-two years which have elapsed since the Garden was trans- 
ferred to the Commissioners of His Majesty’s Works :— 
| 
Total Total Largest |S Smallest} Total | Numb regret Nea 
. real Number on 
Year. in on ii Waki ct 28 
sea ee J. ‘Sunday, | Sunday.| Days. - = male . Wee 
"1889 ... | 368,219 | 187, 457 | 13,935 | 129 180,762 | 3,834 | 50 
1890 ... | 446,540] 216,345 | os ,202 gI 230,195 | 4,032 65 
1891... } 454,083 | 220,543 | 9,445 340 233,540 | 3,228 | 76 
1592... 437,205 | 218,233 Pe es 149 218,972 | 2,666 | 43 
1893 ... | 531,232 | 271,893 | 12,860 45 259,339 | 3,197 | 40 
1894... | §26,948 | 268,793 | 13,515 68 258,155 | 3,153 | 28 
1895... | 516,608 | 264,497 | 15,227 127 252,111 | §,292 | 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 
1898 443,289 | 258,499 | 12,840} 123 | 184,790] 3,234 | 39 
1899 461,686 | 259,424 5,161 105 202,262 | 2,758 30 
1 561,359 | 324,856 17,700 | 268 | 236,503 | 3,667 53 
1gOI 586, 461 339,229 | 19,256 258 247,232 | 4,627 45 
1902 522, 363 295,892 | 15,561 165 226,471 | 5,461 
1903 606,184 | 355,310 19,583 | 135 | 250,874 | 4,202 41 
1904 39, 367,2 20,719 | 374 271,776 | 3,564 42 
1905 584,546 330.9 19,859 100 253,55h 12,708 60 
906 699,558 | 394,030 21,959 84 305,528 | 3,760, 44 
1907 674,208 422,899 25,601 708 251,309 7365 40 
908 585,171 | 342.1 549 | 570 | 243,065 | 2,898 39 
1 683,243 | 394,861 24,334 | 165 288,382 3,483 71 
1910 777,364 | 430,776 | 21,813 | 244 347,088 3,598 | 
IQII 5943 | 420,163 | 22,765 82 288,780 ,828 | 66 
Ig2 714,170 | 383,476 | 25,930 330,694 3,515 | 8 
1913 876,585 | 500,205 | 27,398 | 680 | 376,380) 4,100 59 
1914 776,280 | 414,518 | 25,521 106 361,762 | 5,337 | 62 
1915 ... | 730,761 | 442,179 PLES 125 288,582 | 3,827 55 
1G 695,364 | 367,713 | 20,227 98 327,651 | 3,926 41 
1917 737,070 | 428,752 | 21,533 170 308, 318 |- 3,293 59 
1918 727,782 | 320,450 | 20,811 236 407,332 | 3,911 39 
1919... | 811,937 | 436,055 | 21,775 | 231 375,882 6,274 52 
1920... | 644,856 | 399, 398 eS 19,340 | 481 245,458 | 39777 84 
apse for 
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tier. 9,521 19 45 $3, ee 
* Numbers in this year for nine months only, 
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