EEPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1920. 41 



Number of visitors to the Museum and Smithsonian buildings sinee 1881. 



Year. 



1881 



1882 



1883 



1884 (half year) 

 1884-85(fisca] year) 



1885-86 



1886-87 



1887-88 



1SSS-89 



1889-90 



1890 91 



1S91-92 



1892-93 



1893-94 



1894-95 



1895 96 



1896-97 



1897-98 



1898-99 



1899-1900 



1900-1 



Museum buildings. 



Arts and 

 Indus- 

 tries. 



150, 

 167, 

 202, 

 97, 

 205, 

 174, 

 216, 

 249, 

 374, 

 274, 

 286, 

 269, 

 319, 

 195, 

 201, 

 180, 

 229, 

 177, 

 *192, 

 225, 

 216, 



Natural 

 History. 



Smith- 

 sonian 

 Building. 



100, 

 152, 

 104, 



45, 

 105, 



88, 



98, 

 102, 

 149, 

 120, 

 111, 

 114, 

 174, 

 103, 

 105, 

 103, 

 115, 



99, 

 116, 

 133, 

 151, 



Year. 



1991-2.. 



1902-3.. 

 1903-4. . 

 1904-5. . 

 1905-6.. 

 1906-7. . 

 1907-S-. 

 1908-9. . 

 1909-10. 

 1910-11. 

 1911-12. 

 1912-13. 

 1913-14, 

 1914-15. 

 1915-16. 

 1916-17. 

 1917-18. 

 1918-19. 

 1919-20. 



Museum buildings. 



Arts and 

 Indus- 

 tries. 



173, 

 315, 

 220, 

 235, 

 210, 

 210, 

 299, 

 245, 

 228, 

 207, 

 172, 

 173, 

 146, 

 133, 

 146, 

 161, 

 161, 

 266, 

 250, 



Natural 

 Historv. 



50, 403 

 151,112 

 281, 887 

 319,806 

 329,381 

 321,712 

 381,228 

 407, 025 

 401,100 

 i 132, 859 

 422, 984 



Smith- 

 sonian 

 Building. 



144,107 

 1M.174 

 143, 988 

 149,380 

 149, 661 

 153, 591 

 237, 182 

 198, 054 

 179,163 

 167, 085 

 14.3, 134 

 142, 420 

 102, 645 

 40,324 

 48,517 

 86, 335 

 67, 224 

 101, 504 

 St, 013 



Total | 8,568,244 3,199,497 



4, 922, 009 



1 Building open only three months of the year. 

 PUBLICATIONS. 



The publications of the year comprised 9 volumes and 42 separate 

 papers. The former consisted of the Annual Report of the 'Museum 

 for 1919; volumes 54, 55, and 5G of the Proceedings; volume 21 of 

 Contributions from the National Herbarium, Bulletins Nos. 106 

 (Text), 107 and 108, and a very small edition of Bulletin No. 103. 



Of the 42 papers issued in separate form one was part of volume 

 1. and one of volume 2, of Bulletin 100; one part of Bulletin 103; 

 four parts of volume 20, and two of volume 22, " Contributions from 

 the United States National Herbarium'''; while one was from volume 

 iu>, 16 from volume 56, and 16 from volume 57 of the Proceedings. 

 A brief guide to the Natural History Building was also issued. 



In addition to the Museum publications, many contributions based 

 on material in its collections were printed by other bureaus of the 

 Government. All of the publications above referred to are cited in 

 the bibliography forming part of this report. The editorial office, 

 besides supervising the printing of the Museum publications, also 

 has charge of all miscellaneous printing and binding. 



The distribution of volumes and separates to libraries and indi- 

 viduals on the regular mailing lists aggregated 67,382 copies, in 

 addition to which some 14,554 copies of the publications of last and 

 previous years were supplied in response to special applications. 



