MUSEUM. 



VISITORS. 



During the past year the Museum has been thrown open to tlie Public on 

 Monday nights from 7 to 10 during the six winter months. The number of 

 Visitors on these occasions has been considerable, and, so far as is known, 

 no damage from the use of gas has ensued to the objects exhibited. 



The total number oi Evening Visitors was 23,868 ; the maximum number 

 1437, the minimum 395, the average 954. 



The total number of Day Visitors duiing the year amounts to 464.255, 

 giving a daily average of 2169. These numbers show an increase over the 

 preceding year of 37,043 in the total, and of 170 in the daily average. 



The Day and Evening Visitors together amount to 488,123.* 



Dux'ing the past Summer the number of Visitors has on seven different 

 occasions exceeded 5000 ; on two occasions it has exceeded 6000, and on three 

 occasions the numbers were 7495, 8277, and 8903. The minimum during the 

 year occurred on the 3rd of December, when 690 persons passed through tlie 

 rooms. 



GALLERY OF INVENTIONS AND SCIENCE. 



The various ]\Iodcls of Machinery, New Inventions, (fee, exhibited in this 

 Department, have been placed under the care of an attendant appointed by 

 the Library and Museum Committee. 



* This greatly exceeds the entire population of Liverpool (443,938), as given in the 

 Parliamentaiy Census Reports for 1862, p. x.xiii. 



