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EVENING READING ROOMS. 



The following Branch Evening Residing Rooms are open for the 

 perusal of Magazines and Newspapers from G to 9.30 p.m. in the several 

 Schoolrooms named below : — 



Place. 



Chats worth Street Board School 



»Low Hill School 



Queen's Road Board School 

 Stanley Road Board School 

 Wellington Road School ... 



Total 



116,912 



383 



• The Low Hill Room being contiguous to the New District Library will be discontinued. 



MUSEUM. 



Visitors to Museum. 



1889 

 (213 Days. 

 282,559 

 5,424 

 1,326 



1888 

 (214 Days.) 

 291,754 



5,687 



1,363 



Total visitors in the year 

 Weekly Average 

 Daily Average 



The Visits of Curators, Scientists and others interested in museums 

 have been numerous, and included Mr. A. R. Wallace, Prof. Alfred 

 Newton, F.R.S., of Cambridge, and Dr. Leidy, of Philadelphia, and 

 several other American Professors on their way to the Paris Exhibition. 

 Several Art Students draw from the Statuary in the Great Hall 

 liligently, and Medical Students work at the Osteological Section when 

 studying for their degrees. 



The Series of Lectures delivered on Monday evenings, to which refer- 

 Bnce has been made in the general report, have been fairly well attended. 

 lis being a new departure time must be allowed for their fuller 

 ^development. 



The Circulating School Cabinets continue to be in request, and are 



tconducive to the more frequent visits in large numbers of scholars to 



ithe Museum. Many applications for the loan of these typical collections 



^have been received for special purposes, and have been as freely granted , 



IS also the loan of specimens for object lessons on the part of pupil 



ichers in connection with school examinations. 



