O MUSEUMS. 



The Museums are closed on Sundays and Fridays (except those of 

 Whit and Easter Weeks) throughout the year, as well as on Christmas 

 Day, and days of Public Fust and Thanksgiving. 



II. — Visitors. 



During the year there has been a slight increase in the number of 

 visitors to the Museums over that of the previous year, as shown by the 

 following table : — 



1894. 1895. 



(263 Days) (264 Days) 



Total Visitors in the Year ... ... 306,994 308,987 



Weekly Average ... ... ... 5,903 5,942 



Daily Average . . ... ... ... 1,167 1,170 



It may be of interest, for the sake of comparison, to point out that 

 the attendance at the British Museum (Natural Historj-) for 1894 was 

 413,572, or a daily average of about 1,330 persons ; that is a difference 

 in favour of the National over the Liverpool Museum of IGO persons 

 daily, which cannot but be considered a very satisfactory attendance. 

 A special feature of the attendances this year has been the large number 

 of schools that have taken advantage of the recent section in the 

 Education Code, under which the time devoted to instruction imparted 

 in Museums reckons as school attendance. Such classes have visited 

 the Museum on 26 occasions for the purpose of receiving lessons from 

 the specimens on exhibition. 



Persons desirous of employing the Museums for the purpose of research, 

 reference or sketching, can, on giving satisfactory references, obtain, 

 by application to the Director, tickets enabling them to enter on Fridays, 

 and affording them special facilities for study. During the year a room 

 has been specially set apart for their accommodation, where objects of 

 special study may, with the approval of the Director, be brought for their 

 convenience from the cases. Twenty tickets were issued during the year 

 — chiefly to Students of Osteology and Dental Anatomy — who have 

 made extensive use of the collections on the days the Museum is 

 otherwise closed to the public. 



The Museums were represented by the Director at the Museums 

 Association, which met at Newcastle-on-Tyne, under the Presidency of 



