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Director's Anmial Report. 



At present, I am sorry to sa^-, a visit to the Museum is much iu 

 the nature of a half -holiday to most of the children, and I have seen 

 little instru(5lion given by the teachers to the pupils : there are 

 some marked exceptions. 



TABLE OF ATTENDANCE. 



Open on 



Average 

 Attendance. 



■2 o 





January . 

 February 

 March . . . 



April 



May 



June 



July 



August . . . 

 September 

 October . 

 November 

 December 



Totals . 



334 

 460 

 597 

 349 

 349 

 369 

 329 

 6S4 

 266 

 244 

 320 

 321 



109 



78 



170 



58 



159 



175 



60 



53 



114 



153 



130 



153 



73 



126 



111 



74 



75 



98 



114 



123 



91 



104 



94 



89 



70 

 42 

 88 

 95 

 42 

 67 

 42 

 68 

 44 

 53 

 109 

 81 



10 

 51 

 17 

 45 

 22 

 49 

 64 

 152 

 53 

 15 

 24 

 32 



67.5 



86 



97 



69 



70.5 



76 



63 



79 



68 



70.4 



68.4 



78 



3.3 



25.5 

 8.5 

 6.5 

 7.3 



16 



21 



22 



10 



617 

 740 

 986 

 597 

 656 

 735 

 571 

 942 

 527 

 588 

 708 

 656 



.534 74.4 11. 



List of Accessions. 



DEPARTMENT OF ETHNOLOGY AND ANTHROPOLOGY. 



Give7i . 

 5621 Palm-leaf basket. Guam. Given by Lieut. -Commander 



Stoney. 

 5872-7 Bas-reliefs of Maori heads, done by Mr. Allen Hutchinson. 



Given by Col. W. F. Allen:— 



5872 Old man, Te Arawa tribe. 



5873 Old woman, Te Arawa tribe. 



5874 Man, Waikato tribe. 



5875 Woman, Taupo tribe. 



5876 Boy, Taupo tribe. 



5877 Boy. (?) 



5880 Colleiftion of implements from the Swiss Lake Dwellers, 

 given by Paul Hofer, Esq., and comprising: 15 stone axes, 

 9 sockets of deer horn for axes, 8 stone knives, 2 grindstones. 



