THE BRITISH MUSEUM 



ural history museum, more than half a million visits 

 each year are also made. In the aggregate, then, 

 about a million and a quarter of visits are paid to the 

 British Museum yearly, and though the bulk of the 

 visitors may be mere sight-seers, yet even these must 

 carry away many ideas of value, and it hardly requires 

 argument to show that, as a whole, the educational 

 influence of the British Museum must be enormous. 

 Of its more direct stimulus to scientific work through 

 the trained experts connected with the institution I 

 shall perhaps speak in another connection. 



