EEPOKT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1913. 



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March 3 to 8, inclusive, the number of visitors to the new building 

 aggregated 31,951, a daily average of 5,325, the largest attendance 

 on any single day having been 13,236 on March 5. The figures for 

 each of the other buildings were about one-half as much. 



The following tables show, respectively, the number of visitors 

 during each month of the past year, and for each year begimiing with 

 1881, when the older Museum building was first opened to the pubhc: 



Number of visitors during the year ending June 30, 1913. 



Year and month. 



1912 



July 



August 



September. 



October 



November . 

 December.. 



Older 

 Museum 

 Building. 



New 

 Museum 

 Building 



14,170 

 22, 270 

 18,117 

 12,831 

 7,817 

 7,153 



17,369 

 23,900 

 23,838 

 19,658 

 18,614 

 17,364 



Smithso- 

 nian 

 Building. 



12, 089 

 19, 894 

 16,908 

 11,115 

 6,574 

 6,168 



Year and month. 



Older 

 Museum 

 Building 



1913 



January 



February. . 



March 



AprU 



May 



June 



Total, 



7,633 

 7, 757 

 31,079 

 14, 542 

 13, 872 

 16,617 



173,858 



New 

 Museum 

 Building. 



20, 656 

 17,668 

 58, 398 

 32,238 

 41,011 

 29, 092 



319, 806 



Smithso- 

 nian 

 Building. 



6,446 

 6,389 

 26, 326 

 11,437 

 9,591 

 9,483 



142,420 



Number of visitors to the Museum and Smithsonian Buildings since 1881 . 



PUBLICATIONS, 



The publications issued during the year consisted of 4 volumes 

 and 105 papers printed separately. The former were volumes 42 

 and 43 of the Proceedings, and Bulletins 79 and 81, entitled, re- 



