Enumeration of Visitors 
to the Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh, 
during the Years 1889-1907. 
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 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 nineteen years which have elapsed since the Garden was 
transferred to the Commissioners of His Majesty’s Works :— 
Largest | Smallest 
Largest | Smallest} . 
ee Total in Total on Manabe Number oo te sah sooneg: 
‘ Year. Sundays. | ona on a D - We k | a Week 
unday. | Sunday. vcs Os Bad irae Pyar +A 
Day. Day. 
*1889 368,219 | 187,457 | 13,935 | 129 | 180,762 | 3,834] 50 
1890 446,540 | 216,345 | 11,265 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 
1894 526,948 | 268,793 | 13,515 68 | 258,155 | 3,153| 28 
1895 60 264,49 15,227 127 252,111 5,292 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 | 123 184,7 35234 | 39 
1899 461,686 | . 250,424 | 15,161 105 202,262 | 2,758 30 
1900 561,359 24,856 | 17,700} 268 236,503 067 | 53 
190! 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 18 355,310 | 19,583 | 135 250,874 | 4,202) 41 
1904 ) 367,290 | 20,719 | 374 271,776 | 3,564 | 42 
1905 584,546 | 330,995 | 19,859 100 253,551 | 2,708 | 60 
1906 , 394,030 | 21,959 84 | 305,528 | 3,760) 44 
1907 674,208 | 422,899 | 25,6c1 708 251,309 | 3,365}; 40 
Total 
for 
Eighteen 10,051,172 | 5,564,491 4,486,681 
Years, 
* Numbers in this year for nine months only. 
