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in I> inisfellanooiis sets iiiadc up of representative's of several groups 

 each. 



Anioiia' I lit' iiioic important forei<»ii museunis and other scientific 

 institutions with which exchanm* rehitions were liad diirina- llie vear 

 the following may he mentioned: 'IMie British Museum of Natural 

 History, London, and the Royal liotanic (lardens, Kew, England; 

 the JNluseum of Natural History, Pai-is, France; the Botanical Mu- 

 seum, Berlin, tlie Botanical (Jarden, Darmstadt, the Senchenherg- 

 ischen Museums. Fi-ankfort. and the Natural History Museum, 

 Lubeck, (lermany; the Botanical Garden, Brussels, Belgium; the 

 Botanical Museum. Copenhagen, Dennuirlc; the Naturhistoriska 

 Kiksnuiseum, Stockholm, Sweden; the Zoological Museum, Chris- 

 tiania, NorAvay; the Zoological Museum of the Imperial Academy of 

 Sciences, and the Royal Botanical Garden, St. Petersburg, Russia; 

 the Musee Gantonale d'Histoire Naturelle, Freiburg, Switzerland : 

 the K. K. Naturhistorisches Hofmuseuni, Vienna, Austria; the Hun- 

 garian National Museum, Budapest, Hungary; the Tiotanic (iardens, 

 Durban, Natal, South Africa; the Department of Fisheries, Sydney, 

 New South Wales; the Selangor State Museum, Kuala Lumpur, 

 Federated Malay States; the Institute Medico Nacional, City of 

 Mexico; the Hoj)e (iardens, Kingston, Jamaica; the Universite 

 Laval, Quebec, the Geological Survey of Canada, and the University 

 of Toronto, Canada ; and the Estacion Central Agronomica, Santiago 

 de las Vegas, Cuba. 



Exchanges were also conducted with the follow^in*]: individuals 

 abroad: Mr. Edward Lovett, of England; Mons. Drouin de Bouville. 

 Dr. Henri Martin, and ^Nlons. M. Petitmengin, of France; Dr. Wal- 

 ther Horn, of Germany ; Dr. J. E. Hibsch, of Austria ; Mr. A. Roman, 

 of Sweden; Baron Harold Loudon, of Russia; Dr. A. Berger, of 

 Italy; Dr. H. Christ and Mr. Henry Volkart, of Switzerland; Rev. 

 Longin Navas, of Spain ; Mr. R. L. Mestayer, of New Zealand ; 

 Seiior Juan Tremoleras, of Uruguay; Mr. Constantine G. Rickards 

 and Dr. Nicolas Leon, of Mexico; Mr. James Fowler and Dr. G. F. 

 Matthew^, of Canada. 



VISITORS. 



The total number of visitors to the National ^Museum building dur- 

 ing the year w^as 210,107, a daily average of 671, and to the Smith- 

 sonian building 153,591, a daily average of 490. Were the buildings 

 kept open during evenings and Sundays, as is the general practice 

 elsewhere, these numbers would be at least doubled. 



In the following tables are shown, respectively, the attendance diir-- 

 ing each month of the past year, and for each year beginning w'ith 

 1881, wdien the Museum building w^as first opened to the publi 



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