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able, at but little inconvenience, to supply the blanks 
from his own series. 
“ The council, having now given a condensed view of 
the collections, have to mention one other point—that 
is, the recent additions to the Museum building. The 
‘Thompson Room’ is now completed, and suitable 
cases for it are in progress of construction. They 
have further to observe that a new residence for the 
curator has been erected in the rear of the Museum, 
and also two rooms adjoining this new house, one in- 
tended as a store-room, and the other as a workshop 
in connexion with the curator’s business. 
“The council now pass on to another feature of in- 
terest appertaining to the society. The established 
usage of throwing open the Museum to the working- 
classes ata small charge, every Easter Monday, met 
with great success. ‘The same propriety of conduct 
and anxiety to avoid doing any injury to the objects 
displayed—agreeable characteristics, which in former 
reports your council have had the pleasure to note— 
was apparent throughout; and a much larger number 
of persons inspected the collections than on any pre- 
vious occasion. ‘The following tabular statement may 
prove of interest, as shewing the fluctuations since 
1845 in the number of the visiters on Easter Monday. 
The figures are only approximate; but, as they are cal- 
culated frum the respective cash receipts on each day, 
they may be considered tolerably correct:— 
Persons. 
1845 On Easter Monday, April 1, the Museum 
was visited by about 1,200 
1846 nfo abt 5-006; an 1,700 
1847 aus ait suey oe 2,000 
1848 Zod th 8 ‘26, ant 2,600 
1849 ae LD SSE} 302 3,500 
1850 3) Sr Gah 45 owe 4,400 
1851 “y Fs t. 2423} 0 4,350 
1852 ae ws eS; it 4,200 
1853 at wea A Ti 5,950 
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“Prom the foregoing it appears that the average at- 
tendance on Easter Monday, for the last four years, has 
been 4,725 persons, and of these fully one-half con- 
sisted of young people under twenty years of age. 
“Tn connexion with this subject, the council wish to 
mention, that they have in contemplation the possibility 
of ppening the Museum during the ensuing Winter, at 
