28 EEPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1919. 



Number of visitors to the Mustiem and Smithsonian buildings since 18S1. 



Year. 



1881 



1882 



1883 



1884 (half year).... 

 1884-85 (fiscal year) 



1885-86 



1886-87 



1887-88 



1888-89 



1889-90 



1890-91 



1891-92 



1892-93 



1893-94 



1894-95 



1895-96 



1896-97 



1897-98 



1898-99 



1899-1900 



1900-1 



Museum buildings. 



Arts and 

 Indus- 

 tries 



150,000 

 167,455 

 202, 188 

 97,661 

 205, 026 

 174,225 

 216,562 

 249,665 

 374, 843 

 274,324 

 286,426 

 269,825 

 319, 830 

 195, 748 

 201, 744 

 180,505 

 229, 606 

 177, 254 

 192,471 

 225,440 

 216,556 



Natural 

 History. 



Smithso- 

 nian 

 Building. 



100,000 

 152, 744 

 104,823 



45, 565 

 105, 993 



88,960 



98,552 

 102, 863 

 149,618 

 120, 894 

 111,669 

 114,817 

 174, 188 

 103,910 

 105, 658 

 103, 650 

 115, 709 



99, 273 

 116,912 

 133, 147 

 151,563 



Year. 



1901-2 



1902-3 , 



1903^ 



1904-5 



1905-6 



1906-7 , 



1907-8 , 



1908-9 



1909-10 



1910-11 



1911-12 



1912-13 



1913-14 



1914-15 



1915-16 



1916-17 



1917-18 



1918-19 



Total 



Museum buildings. 



Arts and 

 Indus- 

 tries 



173, 8SS 

 315, 307 

 220, 778 

 235,921 

 210, 886 

 210, 107 

 299,659 

 245, 187 

 228,804 

 207, 010 

 172, 182 

 173, 858 

 146, 533 

 133, 202 

 146, 956 

 161, 700 

 161, 298 

 266,532 



8,317,262 



Natural 

 History. 



Smitliso- 



nian 

 Building. 



50,403 

 151,112 

 281,887 

 319, 806 

 329,381 

 321,712 

 381, 228 

 407, 025 

 401, 100 

 1 132, 859 



2,776.513 



144, 107 



181,174 



143, 988 



149,380 



149,661 



153, 591 



237, 182 



198, 054 



179, 163 



167, 085 



143, 134 



142,420 



102, 645 



40,324 



48,517 



86, 335 



67, 224 



101,504 



4, 835, 996 



1 Building open only three months of the year. 

 PUBLICATIONS. 



The publications of the year comprised 8 volumes and 71 sep- 

 arate papers. The former consisted of the annual reports of the 

 Museum for 1917 and 1918; volumes 52 and 53 of the Proceedings; 

 and the following four Bulletins: No. 50, Part VIII, "The Birds 

 of North and Middle America," by Eobert Eidgway, containing 

 descriptions of the jacanas, thick-knees, oyster-catchers, turnstones, 

 surf birds, plovers, snipes, phalaropes,- avocets and stilts, skim- 

 mers, terns, gulls, skuas, and auks; No. 100, volume 3, "Contribu- 

 tions to the biology of the Philippine Archipelago and adjacent 

 regions. Starfishes of the Philippine seas and adjacent waters," 

 by Walter K. Fisher; No. 102, volume 1, "The mineral industries of 

 the United States. The energy resources of the United States: A 

 field for reconstruction," by Chester G. Gilbert and Joseph E. 

 Pogue; and No. 105, "Catalogue of the postage stamps and stamped 

 envelopes of the United States and possessions, issued prior to Jan- 

 uary 1, 1919," by Joseph B. Leavy. 



Of the 71 papers issued in separate form 2 were parts of Bulletin 

 No. 99, "East African mammals in the United States National Mu- 

 seum," by N. Hollister, as follows: "Part I. Insectivora, Chirop- 



