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Classification of Books Lent : — 



Theolog)-, Moral Philosophy, &c 



Natural Philosophy and Mathematics 



Natural History 



Science and tlio Arts 



History and Biography 



Topography and Antiquities 



Vo5'ages and Travels 



Miscellaneous Literature 



Jurisprudence, Politics, &o 



Commerce and Political Economy. . . . 

 Education, Languages, Logic, &c. . . 



Poetrj' and the Drama ; . . . . 



Prose Fiction 



Latin and Greek Classics 



Books for the Blind 



Total '• 193,013 206,733 399,746 



Mr. Cowell, the late Superintendent, having been appointed Chief Librarian 

 at the Reference Library, his ^jlace has been supplied by Mr. Grice, late the 

 Librarian of the North Lending Library. 



MUSEUM. 



STATISTICS, 

 The visitors to the Museum during the year have been as follows : — 



1874-5. 1873-4. Increase. 



Total Day Visitors 461,35>5 413,591 47,794 



Weekly Average 8,872 7,953 919 



Daily Average 2,166 1,941 225 



The 18th of October, 1875, was the fourteenth anniversary of the opening 

 of the Museum in the present building. During that time the total number of 

 visitors amounted to 6,257,702 (or slightly over six millions and a quarter), 

 giving a yearly average of 446,978 (or very nearly 450,000). 



DONATIONS. 

 The donation.s have been as under : — 



The Skin and Skeleton of immature Manatee {Manatus Australis) ; specimens 

 of 9 species of Crustacea ; Egg Sacs of Ampullaria ; a small Siliceous Sponge ; 

 a specimen of Murex with its Egg Capsules (taken while spawning) ; Egg Cap- 

 sules of Pyrula meloiigena and of Stro'mhus gigas ; two Corals, and specimens 

 of Mud- Wasps and Nests, aU from Belize; collected and presented by Staff 

 Surgeon-]\Iajor Samuel Archer, Corr. Mem. Lit. and Phil. Soc. of Liverpool. 



Specimens of small Swimming Crabs, taken from the Gulf weed in lat. 

 22.12 N., long. 87.2 W. ; collected and presented by Mr. C. A. Armstrong, 



