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KEPOKT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1888. 



Table slioiving the number of visitors to tlie Museum and Smithsonian Buildings since the 

 ope7iing of the former in 1S81. 



Year. 



Museum 

 Building. 



Smithsonian 

 Building. 



Total No. of 



visitors to both 



buildings. 



881 



882 



883 



884 



885 (January to June) 



885-'S6 



886-'87 



887-88 



150, 000 

 167, 455 

 202, 188 

 195, 322 

 107, 365 

 174, 225 

 216, 562 

 249, 665 



1, 462, 782 



(?) 



152, 744 

 104, 823 

 91, 130 

 60, 428 

 88, 960 

 98, 552 

 102, 863 



699, 500 



(?)150,000 

 320,199 

 307, Oil 

 286, 452 

 167, 793 

 263, 185 

 315, 114 

 352, 528 



2, 162, 282 



LECTURES AND MEETINGS OF SOCIETIES. 



Following the custom of previous years the use of the lecture hall 

 has been granted for a series of lectures delivered under the joint au- 

 spices of the Biological and Anthropological Societies of Washington. 

 Some of these lectures were delivered on Saturday afternoons, and 

 others, illustrated by stereopticou views, on Friday evenings. 



The course consisted of two series of lectures, the programme of each 

 being as follows : 



PEOGRAMME OF THE FIRST SERIES. 



-February 18.— Prof. Herbert B. Adams: University Extension in England, Balti- 

 more, and Washington. 

 Felruary 24. — Prof. William Libby, Jr. : Southeastern Alaska and its People. 

 March 3. — Prof. F. W. Clarke: Chemical Analysis. 

 March 9. — Dr. George H. Williams : The Microscope in Geology. 

 March 17. — Nathaniel H. Egleston : The Origin of Our Names. 

 March 24. — Prof. Paul Haupt : Excavation in Assyria and Babylonia. 



programme of the second series. 



March 31.— Prof. G. Stanley Hall: Psychic Eesearch in England, and the Recent 

 Study of Hypnotism in France. 

 April 6.— Prof. H. Carrington Bolton : Glaciers. 

 April 14.— Dr. David T. Day : The Use of Natural Gas. 

 Ajyril 21. — Prof. T. C. Mendenhall: Earthquake Measurements. 

 A2)ril 28. — Prof. Otis T. Mason : Woman's Share in Primitive Culture, 

 May 5. — Maj. J. W. Powell: The Course of Human Progress. 



The members of the joint committee in charge of the arrangement of 

 the lectures were Garrick Mallery, Frank Baker, J. S. Billings, W. H. 

 Dall, J. E. Eastman, Eobert Fletcher, G. K. Gilbert, G. Brown Goode, 

 H. W. Henshaw, J. H. Kidder, Otis T. Mason, Washington Matthews, 

 C, Hart Merriam, C. V. Eiley, and E. S. Woodward, 



