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EEPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1910. 

 MISCELLANEOUS. 



VISITORS. 



The distribution of the exhibition collections between two or more 

 buildings renders it manifest!}' impossible to determine the actual 

 number of persons who visit the Museum regarded as a unit, and in 

 this matter each building must continue, as heretofore, to be con- 

 sidered separately. The records for the past 30 years show a uni- 

 formly greater attendance at the older Museum building than at the 

 Smithsonian building, but as soon as the new building has been 

 entirely fitted up it is certain to assume the ascendency in this respect. 



During the past year the number of visitors to the old Museum 

 building was 228,804, a daily average of 731, and to the Smithsonian 

 building, 179,163, a daily average of 572. During the approximately 

 3^ months since the gallery of art and part of the ethnological collec- 

 tion was opened, the attendance at the new building has been 50,403, 

 a daily average of 560. The following tables show, respectively, 

 the attendance during each month of the past year, and for each year 

 beginning with 1881, when the Museum building was first opened 

 to the public : 



Number nf visitors during the year ending June SO, 1910. 



Year and month. 



1909 



July 



August 



September 



October 



November 



December 



Year and 

 mouth. 



1910. 



January 



February . . 



March 



April 



May 



June 



Total 



Smithso- 

 nian 

 building. 



8,067 

 10,610 

 18, 479 

 16, 124 

 24,501 

 14,211 



179, 163 



