ANNUAL REPORT SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, 1954 



Table 1. — Visitors to certain Smithsonian huildings during the year ended 



June SO, 1954 



Year and month 



195S 



July 



August --- 



September 



October 



November 



December 



195i 



January 



February - 



March.. 



April 



May 



June 



Total 



Smith- 

 sonian 

 Building 



71,413 

 86, 587 

 46, 568 

 45,111 

 31,605 

 22, 993 



24, 708 

 30, 284 

 33, 024 

 104,204 

 92,315 

 63, 266 



652, 078 



Arts and 

 Industries 

 Building 



229,917 

 225, 050 

 112,853 

 137, 052 

 69, 603 

 51,818 



46, 903 

 78, 924 

 85, 947 

 294, 030 

 249, 080 

 166, 250 



1,748,117 



Natural 

 History 

 Building 



82,665 

 93, 657 

 58,077 

 71,132 

 50, 179 

 36,412 



46,245 

 49, 823 

 55 ,866 

 115,980 

 117,082 

 84, 828 



801, 955 



Aircraft 

 Building 



27,941 

 34, 142 

 1 12, 739 

 10, 561 

 14,863 

 11,120 



9,801 

 26, 295 

 24, 792 

 62, 321 

 46, 462 

 36, 947 



324, 984 



Freer 

 Building 



7,540 

 8,920 

 6,451 

 5,278 

 4,220 

 2, 494 



3,060 

 3,944 

 4,005 

 9,421 

 8,687 

 7,721 



71,747 



Total 



419,482 

 448, 956 

 236, 088 

 275, 134 

 170, 560 

 124, 846 



130.717 

 189, 270 

 203, 034 

 585, 956 

 513, 626 

 360, 012 



3,058,881 



I Building closed 8 days lor installation of the Excalibur III. 



During the year a special record was kept of groups of school 

 children visiting the Institution. The figures are given in table 2 : 



Table 2. — Croups of school children visiting the Smithsonian, 1953-54 



Year and month 



1953: 



July 



August 



September 

 October. _ 

 November 

 December. 



1954: 



January. _ 

 February. 



March 



April 



May 



June 



Children 



3,038 

 1,923 

 1, 161 

 8,030 

 9,544 

 5,414 



4,042 

 7,310 

 19, 058 

 62, 691 

 91,441 

 26, 977 



240, 629 



LECTURES 



In 1931 the Institution received a bequest from James Arthur, of 

 New York, a part of the income from which was to be used for an 

 annual lecture on some aspect of the study of the sun. The twenty- 

 first Arthur lecture was delivered in the auditorium of the Natural 

 History Building on the evening of May 27, 1954, by Dr. John W. 



