43 
REPORT BY THE CURATOR OF MUSEUMS. 
I beg to furnish the Sixtieth Annual Report upon the CONDUCT 
and PROGRESS of the Museums. 
1.—GENERAL. 
Since 1896, a period of seventeen years, specimens of Natural 
History and of Ethnography, totalling over 100,000 specimens, 
have been added to the Collections, or an average of over 6,000 
additions per year. 
The visitors to the Museums during the year, which show a 
considerable increase over last year, are as follows :— 
Total Visitors ... Ae Sts a ... 480,666 
_ Weekly Average BL? i oe a 9,243 
Daily Average... ae Py a Boy 1,820 
There has been a large number of special visitors from other 
Museums and Educational institutions, and the following, from 
among others, may be recorded: Professor Sayce, Professor of 
Assyriology, Oxford; Dr. Preuss, Director of the Royal Ethno- 
graphical Museum, Berlin; Professor Lehmann Haupt, LL.D., 
Ph.D., Liverpool; Professor Otto Lehmann, Director of the Altona 
Museum; Dr. G. Byron Gordon, Director of the Museum of 
Pennsylvania, Philadelphia ; Sir John Brunner, Liverpool ; Professor 
C. U. Hartmann, Director of the Ethnographical Museum, Stock- 
holm; N. W. Thomas, Government Anthropologist for West Africa ; 
Dr. Arthur Dendy, Professor of Zoology, University of London; 
Dr. Lucas, Director of the American Museum of Natural History, 
and Dr. W. B. Benham, F.R.S., Professor of Biology and 
Curator of Museum, Otago University, New Zealand. 
