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ANNUAL REPORT SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, 1933 



country. The average attendance for week days was 3,825 and for 

 Sundays 4,571. The number of visitors to the Smithsonian Building 

 on week days was 183,928, a daily average of 591, and on Sundays 

 40,561, an average of 780; to the Arts and Industries Building 

 478,160 on week days (average, 1,537) and 103,642 on Sundays 

 (average, 1,993); to the Natural History Building 426,514 on week 

 days (average, 1,371) and 93,463 on Sundays (average, 1,797); and 

 to the Aircraft Building 101,091, a daily average of 325. 



Table 1 shows the number of visitors during each month for the 

 past year. 



Table 1. — Visitors to Museum buildings during the year ended June 30, 1933 



Year and month 



1932 



July 



August 



September 



October 



November 



December 



1933 



January 



February 



March 



April 



May 



June 



Total 



Smithson- 

 ian Build- 

 ing 



28, 251 

 33, 310 

 21, 250 

 15, 018 

 11,024 

 6,942 



8,503 



8, 138 



20, 538 



33, 114 



18, 863 



19, 537 



224, 488 



Museum buildings 



Arts and 

 Industries 



70, 878 

 90, 225 

 54, 857 

 39, 861 

 27, 586 

 16, 422 



21, 368 

 20, 302 

 45, 437 

 84, 684 

 56, 337 

 53, 845 



581, 802 



Natural 

 History 



53, 540 

 66, 900 



42,911 

 38, 270 

 30, 397 

 17, 292 



28, 925 

 23, 807 

 47, 853 

 65, 146 

 57, 388 

 47, 548 



519, 977 



Aircraft 



13, 426 

 15, 967 

 9,420 

 5,947 

 4, 429 

 3,516 



4, 449 

 3,787 

 8,886 

 12, 457 

 9,075 

 9,732 



101,091 



Total 



166, 095 



206, 402 



128, 438 



99, 096 



73, 436 



44, 172 



63, 245 

 56, 034 

 122, 714 

 195, 401 

 141, 663 

 130, 662 



1, 427, 358 



PUBLICATIONS 



The publications issued during the year include nine volumes, 

 as follows: The Annual Report for 1932; Bulletin 39, part N (6th 

 rev.). Directions for Preparing Specimens of Mammals, by Gerrit 

 S. Miller, Jr.; Bulletin 100, volume 12, The Fishes of the Families 

 Banjosidae, Lethrinidae, Sparidae, Girellidae, Kyphosidae, Opleg- 

 nathidae, Gerridae, Mullidae, Emmelichthyidae, Sciaenidae, Sillag- 

 inidae, Arripidae, and Enoplosidae Collected by the United States 

 Bureau of Fisheries Steamer Albatross, Chiefly in Philippine Seas 

 and Adjacent Waters, by Henry W. Fowler; Bulletin 158, The 

 Copepods of the Woods Hole Region, Mass., by Charles Branch 

 Wilson; Bulletin 163, American and European Swords in the His- 

 torical Collections of the United States National Museum, by Theo- 

 dore T. Belote; Bulletin 164, The Canadian and Ordovician Forma- 



