Enumeration of Visitors to the Royal Botanic 
Garden, Edinburgh, during the Years 1889-1911. 
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 subjoined table shows the number of visitors to the 
Garden on Sundays and Week-days respectively during the 
twenty-three years which have elapsed since the Garden was 
transferred to the Commissioners of His Majesty’s Works :— 
Largest | Smallest 
Total Total por a Smallest} Total Wimber Number 
: umber | N on 
Year. in Sa’ a Ging Week on on ; 
=. —— Sunday. |Sunday.| Days. |* Addai pil = 
*1889 0... | 368,219 | 187,457 | 13,935 129 180,762 | 3,834 | 50 
18900 . ... 446,540 | 216,345 | 11,262 gI 230,195 | 4,032 65 
1891 454,083 | 220,543} 9,445} 340 233,540) 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 
526,948 | 268,793 | 13,515 68 | 258,155) 3,153 | 28 
1895 516,608 | 264,497 | 15,227 127 252,111 5,292 26 
1896 516,407 | 296,576 | 13,517 | 527 219,831 | 3,825 | 30 
1897 pepe HAIG 16,001 74 203,480 | 3,153 | 20 
1898 443,289 | 258,499 | 12,840 123 184, 3,234 39 
1899 461,686 | 259,424 | 15,161 105 202,262 2,758 30 
561,359 | 324,856 | 17,7 268 235,503 | 3,667 | 53 
1901 586,461 | 339,229 | 19,256 258 247,232 | 4,627 45 
1902 522,363 | 295,892 | 15,561 165 226,471 5,461 60 
1903 606,184 | 355,310 | 19,583} 135 250,874 | 4,202 | 41 
1904 639,066 7,290 | 20,719 | 374 271,776 | 3,564 | 42 
1905 584,545 | 330,995 | 19,859 253,551 | 2,703 | 60 
I 699,558 | 394,030 | 21,959 84 | 305,528 44 
1907 674,208 | 422,89 5,601 708 251,309 | 3,365] 40 
908 585,171 | 342,106 | 20,549 | 570 | 243,065 2,898} 39 
1909... | 683,243 | 394,861 | 24,334 | 165 288,382 | 3,483 | 71 
1910... | 777,864 | 430,776 | 21,813 | 244 347,088 | 3,598 
16h "5: 708,943 420,163 | 22,765 82 288,780 3,828 66 
| Total for 
Twenty- 
three [[#2-806,393 | 7,152,397 |... w+ | 5:653,996 
Years 
* Numbers in this year for nine months only. 
