10 

 MUSEUM. 



STATISTICS. 



Increase in 

 1866-67. 



1S65-66. 1866-67. 



Day Visitors 360,117 474,660 114,543 



Evening do 25,479 31,333 6,854 



Total 385,596 505,993 



Average of Day Visitors 1,818 2,228 



(24 ( ''5 



Average of Evening Visitors ^'^^MNights ^'^^^ INights 



Greatest Attendance in one Evening 1,342 1,904 



Smallest ditto 783 823 



The great increase in the number of visitors during the past year is 

 attributable in great measure to the recent acquisition of the Mayer Collection, 

 as noted above ; but the attendance of more than half-a-million ^asitors to the 

 Museum in one year is a fact deserving special note, and is most satisfactory 

 evidence of the estimation in which the Institution is held by the public at 

 lai^e. 



DONATIONS. 



Two Shells (^Separatista Gray!) fi-om Japan, and a Teredo, from the Cape of Good 

 Hope, presented by >Ir. A. Adams, London. 



A bottle of Lizards, presented by Mr. T. P. Adlington. 



Twenty-one Lower Silurian Fossils, from the neighbourhood of Portmadoc (including 

 Dionides atra, Mtobe Homfrayi, Coniularia Homfrayi, Hymenocaris vemiicauda, &c.) 

 presented by Mr. Frederick Asb, Dartmouth, Devon. 



A Shark's Jaw, presented by Captain John Baker, ship " Adelaide Baker." 



Living specimens of Anemones (Anthea ccreus), from Holyhead, presented by Kev. 

 William Banister. 



A collection of Fish, Crustacea, Reptiles, Insects, and a few small Rodents, from the 

 River Plate, presented by Captain Batty, s.s. " Cordova." 



A Flying Fox (Pteropus), from Calcutta, two Flying Fish, and three Lizards, presented 

 by Captain Beattie, ship " Harold." 



A Lamprey (taken from ship's hvdl, 20 miles off Cork), presented by Captain Beer, 



ship " Esmeralda." 



A case of Insects, from Bombay, presented by Captain Bell, s,s. "Atlas." 



A young Swift, presented by ^Ma-. James Bennett. 



A bottle-nose Dolphin (^Delphiniis ?) skin and skull, some fine Fish of the Tunny tribe 



(^Scomberoids), and other !Marine Specimens, collected and presented by Captain 



Berry, ship " Richard Cobden." 



The Model of a Canoe, from Ceylon, presented by Mr. John Blake. 



