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The re-arrangement of the minerals in the Museum is now 
practically completed, and the collection will be fully labelled and in 
order in the course of afew weeks. Mr. A. H. Stokes, F.G.S., and Mr. 
Arnold Bemrose, M.A., who have kindly undertaken this work, and 
to whom I owe a deep debt of gratitude, have had their labours 
considerably prolonged by the arrangement of the important 
purchases made from Mrs, Urban Smith in March last. I think that 
when finally arranged, our collection will fully hold its own with that 
of other provincial Museums. 
The numbers visiting the Institution were carefully counted 
during three separate weeks in February and March last. The 
highest week was 13,816, and the lowest 13,215, the average being 
13,423, thus distributed : 
Lending Library ses 36 ste mi 3330 
News Room _... mae Ds ‘4: es 5330 
Reference Room ona 4 isp sice 3013 
Ladies’ Room ... bias B bate deg 731 
Museum... 1019 
E3425 
The busiest day in the Reading Rooms is Monday; in the 
Libraries and Museum, Saturday. These figures need no comment, 
showing as they do that the Institution, as a whole, is well used and 
highly appreciated. The figures for the year, on the same basis, 
would be something like 670,000, or about seven times the population 
of the borough. 
I have again the greatest pleasure in testifying to the zeal and 
efficiency with which the whole of the staff discharge their duties. 
All the work, which is at times very heavy, is cheerfully done, and 
with a single eye to the good of the Institution and the service 
of the public. 
The usual tables are appended to this report, to which I beg to 
refer all who require further information, and beg to remain, 
gentlemen, 
Your obedient Servant, 
W. CROWTHER, 
Librarian and Curator. 
OcroBeR 30th, 1888. 
