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MUSEUM. 



STATISTICS. 



Increase in Decrease in 

 1868-9 1869-70 1869-70 1869-70. 



Day Visitors 462,892 446,473 ... 16,419 



Evening Visitors 44,000 54,473 10,473 



Total 506.892 500,946 ... 5,946 



Average of Day Visitors 2,163 2,057 ... 106 



Average of Evening Visitors 1,760 2,095 335 

 Greatest Attendance in one 



Evening 2,929 3,480 



Smallest „ „ 813 906 



Compared with the average of the six precediag years, the 



number of Visitors is above 30,000 in excess, as shewn by the 



following figures : — 



Total number of Visitors in 1869-70 500,946 



Average of six preceding years 468,850 



Excess of 1869-70 32,096 



For the third time the annual total exceeds half-a-million. In 

 1866-7 the total was 505,993 ; and in 1868-9 it was 506,892, the 

 highest number yet attained. 



The total number of Visitors from the opening of the Museum 

 in William Brown Street. Oct. 18, 1861, to Aug. 31, 1870, 

 amounts to 4,062,975 



The total Visitors to the Old Museum in Duke Street, from its 

 opening in 1853 to its close in 1860, was 984,769 



Making a Grand Total of Visitors to the Museum, since its 



foundation, of 5,047,744 



DONATIONS. 



Thirteen Articles of Peruvian Pottery from Truxillo; presented 

 by Capt. Angel, barque " John Peile." 



The Skull of a Delphinus taken off Madagascar ; presented by Mr. 

 W. H. Bates. 



A Gaunet (Sula bassana) ; presented by Mr. Alderman Bennett. 



A collection of Fish from the River Irawady, Burmah, and other 

 Specimens chiefly collected at Sea ; presented by the late Capt. Berry, 

 ship " Richard Cobden," Associate of the Literary and Philosophical 

 Society of Liverpool. 



