Theos-Talk Archives (August 2007 Message tt00252)

Anand,

Thanks for your question.  Dr. Gregory Tillett
wrote the following on Theos-Talk in 2002:

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In researching the influence of Leadbeater on the Adyar TS, I 
accumulated large amounts of membrship statistics and included an 
appendix on membership figures in my PhD thesis. The following is a 
brief summary of the figures. For all sorts of methodological reasons 
(e.g. different "official" sources sometimes give different figures) 
they cannot be regarded as definitive, and are drawn from a range of 
sources (e.g. Annual Reports). I have figures for every year from 
1907-1983, but only give sample years below. No accurate records 
exist for 1875-1906. Josphine Ransom estimate 10000 as the memebrship 
in 1900.

Year
1907 14863
1910 20356
1915 25696
1920 36350
1925 41645
1928 45098
1930 39311
1935 30317
1940 23644
1945 29327
1950 32564
1955 32902
1960 33875
1965 31424
1970 31721
1975 34357
1980 34391
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Read more of Dr. Tillett's posting at:

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/theos-talk/message/5012

Hope this helps.

Daniel
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