35 
THE MUSEUMS. 
I beg to furnish the Fifty-eighth Annual Report upon the 
CONDUCT and PROGRESS of the Museums. 
1.—GENERAL. 
Since 1896, a period of fifteen years, 89,500 specimens of Natural 
History and 11,756 specimens of Ethnography, totalling over 
100,000 specimens, have been added to the collections, or an average 
of nearly 7,000 additions per year. 
The following table shows the total number of visitors to the 
Museums during the year, compared with that of the year 1909 :— 
1909. 1910. 
(261 Days.) (262 Days.) 
Total Visitors ... ae ies na a 453,164 ap 481,494 
Weekly Average so ae ans ree 8,714 sae 9,259 
Daily Average ... 5 He nas oe 1,736 ee 1,837 
The attendance of School Children under the charge of teachers 
has continued, and the latter have availed themselves of the Clause 
in the Education Code, whereby time devoted to instruction in 
Museums reckons as school attendance. School Teachers make 
frequent use of the Museum theatre to give special lessons to their 
__-pupils—specimens being brought from the Museum cases for 
illustrating them, 
1 Twenty-four lectures were delivered by members of the Staff 
and others on Monday evenings in the lecture theatre of the 
_ Museums, specially dealing with the various collections in the 
Institution, They were illustrated by specimens and lantern slides, 
_ The number of Visitors to the Museums on these Monday evenings 
4 totals 8,380, of which a large percentage attends the various 
lectures. 
