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REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1900. 



Mr. H. W. Parritt, London, England; a collection of amulets in Bohe- 

 mian glass, representing teeth of various animals, from Mr. Edward 

 Lovett, Croydon, England; collections of insects and crustaceans from 

 the Museum of Natural History, Paris, France; tishes from the Italian 

 coast and the Red Sea, from the Museum of Natural History, Milan, 

 Italy; invertebrate fossils from Mr. D. Socoloff, Orenburg, Russia; 

 many ethnological objects from islands in the South Seas, and a collec- 

 tion of Moa bones, from Canterbur\' Museum, Christchurch, New 

 Zealand; natural history and archaeological specimems from the Public 

 Museum, Wanganui, New Zealand; specimens of Eocene and Oligo- 

 cene fossils from Mr. F. K. McK. Grant, Melbourne, Victoria; collec- 

 tions of plants from the Natal Botanic Gardens, Durban, South Africa; 

 specimens of fossil brachiopods from the Museu Paulista, Sao Paulo, 

 Bi"azil. 



Material, for which return had not been made at the close of the 

 year, was sent abroad, as follows: Specimens of crabs to the Zoolog- 

 ical ]\Iuseum, Turin, Italy; 100 skins and skulls of North American 

 nianmials, and several Indian baskets, to the Ro3'al Zoological Museum, 

 Dresden, Germany; 128 specimens of Lower Cretaceous fossils, rep- 

 resenting 30 species, to the Geological-Paleontological Institute, 

 Munich, German}^; 900 plants to the Freie Vereinigung Tiroler 

 Botaniker, Dellach in Oberdrauthale, Carinthia, Austria; 97 speci- 

 mens of Lepidoptera, representing 36 species from North America, 

 Asia, and Africa, to Mr. G. Ruscherveyh, Buenos Ayres, Argentina. 



VISITORS. 



The luimber of persons who visited the Museum building was 

 225,440, and the Smithsonian building 133,147. The following tables 

 show, respectively, the attendance during each month of the past 

 year, and during each year since 1880: 



Number of visitors during the fiscal year 1899-1900. 



Year and month. 



Museum Smithsonian 

 buiMing. building. 



July 



August 



September . 



October 



November . 

 December. . 



January.. 

 February 

 March . . . 



April 



May 



June 



1899. 



1900. 



Totiil 



Approxiinato daily average on a basis of 313 days in the year. 



12,563 

 17,492 

 32,374 

 20, 735 

 12,668 

 16,223 



16,180 

 15,992 

 27, 385 

 26, 301 



18, 539 



225,440 

 720 



5,960 

 9,364 

 14,951 

 12,099 

 8,021 

 10, 440 



7,892 

 8,767 

 11, 472 

 17,028 

 14, 650 

 12,503 



133,147 

 425 



