Enumeration of Visitors to the Royal Botanic 
Garden, Edinburgh, during the Years 1889-1923. 
On the 1st 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-five years which have elapsed since the Garden was trans- 
ferred to the Commissioners of His Majesty’s Works :— 
Total Total Largest | Smallest Total Pargeyt Smallest 
Year. in on Number | Number on pi ae 
Year. Sundays. sie alas apa Week a Week | a Week 
Sunday, | Sunday, | Days. Day. Day, 
#1889... | 368,219 | 187,457 | 13,935 129 180,762 | 3,834 50 
7890. ». 446,540 216,345 | 11,262 4. GT 230,195 4,032 5 
1891 454,083 | 220,543 1445 340 | 233,54 3,228 7 
1892 437,205 218,233 | 13,581 149 18,972 2,666 43 
1893 531,232 | 271,893 | 12, 45 | 259,339 | 3,197 40 
1 524, 268,793.| 13,515 | 68 258,155 | 3,153 28 
1895 516,608 264,497 | 15,227 127 252,118 3292 26 
i! 296,576 | 13,517 527 | 219,831 | 3,825 30 
1897 475,210 | 271,730 | 16,001 74 | 203,4 59153 20 
443, 258,449 | 12,840 123 184,790 | 3,234 39 
1899 61 259,424 | 15,161 105 202,262 25758 
1900 563,359 | 324,856 | 17,700 68 | 236,503 667 53 
Igor 586, 339,229 | 19,256-—258 [| 247,232 | 4,627 45 
1902 522,303 | 295,892 } 15,561 165 | 226,471 | 5,461 60 
1903 184 | 355,310 | 19,583 135 250,874 | 4,202 41 
I 30, 367,290 | 20,719 374 | 271,776 | 3,564 42 
1905 584,546 | 330,995 | 19,859 100 | 253,551 | 2,708 
I 155 394,030 | 21,959 84 ] 305,528 7 44 
1907 674,208 »899 | 25,601 708 257,309 | 35365 40 
908 585,171 | 342,106 | 20,549 570 | 243,065 ,898 39 
I F 394,861 | 24,334 165 288,382 | 3,483 71 
1919 777864 | 430,776 | 21,813 244 347,0 355 80 
IQII 708, 420,163 | 22,765 8 288,780 | 3,828 66 
1gi2 714,170 | 383,476 | 25,930 330,694 | 3,515 81 
1913 876,585 F 7,398 680 | 376,380 | 4,100 59 
1914 776,280 | 414,518 | 25,521 106 | 361,762 | 5,337 | 62 
1915 730,76 2,179 | 21,155 125 | 288,582 | 3,827 55 
1916 695,364 | 367,713 | 20,227 327,651 | 3,926 41 
1917 737,07 28,752 | 21,531 170 | 208,31 35293 59 
1918 727,78: 320,450 | 20,811 236 | 407,232 | 3,911 39 
1919 811,937 | 436,055 | 21,775 231 , 6,274 52 
1920 . 399,398 | 19,340 481 245,458 | 3,777 84 
192I ... | 702, 418,832 | 20,892 797 | 283,649 | 4,027 45 
1922 ... | 816,272 | 369,636 | 23,979 519 | 440,636 | 3,741 71 
1923 --- | 782,175 | 427,155 | 22,424 549 | 355,020 | 4,849 | 108 _ 
Total for 
Thirty: 21,822,126 | 12,060,766 ae ce 9,761,360 
* Numbers in this year for nine months only, 
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