REPORT OF ASSISTvVNT SECRETARY. 65 



The monthly register of visitors during- the hist lisciil year is as follows : 



Jnly 



August .. . 

 SepteuilxT 

 October . . . 

 Kovemlier 

 December . 



Year and month. 



National 

 Museum 

 buildinft'. 



Smithsonian 

 building. 



January . 

 February 

 Marcli ... 



April 



May 



June 



Approximate daily average on a basis ol' 313 days in tlic. year. 



24, 005 

 26, 825 

 26,112 

 26, 294 

 25, 072 

 21,063 



8,262 

 10, 458 

 10.010 

 9,767 

 8, 832 

 8,492 



286, 426 

 921 



111,669 

 346 



Table show ill fj the luiiiiher of visitors to the Museum and Sniithsoiiiaii biiil(Iiii{i!< sinte the 

 openinf/ of the former in 18S1. 



LECTURES AND MEETINGS OF SOCIETIES. 



Following the practice of previous years, the lecture hall of the Mu- 

 seum has been granted tor lectures and meetings of nninerous scientific 

 societies. A statement of the meetings held between July, 1890, and 

 July, 1891, is appended. 



1S90. 



rii(>t(>grai)h«rs" Association, August 12-15. 



A.ssociatioii of Official Agricultural Chemists (eighth meeting), August 2S. 

 Americau Ornithologists Union, November 18-20. 



American Historical Association (seventh annual meeting), December 29-31. 

 Joint meeting of the American Economic Association and the American Forestry 

 Association, December 30. 

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