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REPORT OP NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1924 



'Number of visitors to the Museum and Smithsonian Buildings since 1881 





Museum buildings 



Smith- 

 sonian 

 Build- 

 ing 



Year 



Museum buildings 



Smith- 



Year 



Arts and 

 Indus- 

 tries 



Natural 

 History 



Aircraft 



Arts and 

 Indus- 

 tries 



Natural 

 History 



Aircraft 



sonian 

 Build- 

 ing 



1881 



150, 000 

 167, 455 

 202, 188 



97, 661 



205, 026 

 174, 225 

 216, 562 

 249, 665 

 374, 843 

 274, 324 

 286, 426 

 269, 825 

 319, 930 

 195, 748 

 201, 744 

 180, 505 

 229, 606 

 177, 254 

 192, 471 

 225, 440 

 216, 556 

 173, 888 







100, 000 

 152, 744 

 104, 823 



45, 565 



105, 993 

 88, 960 

 98, 552 

 102, 863 

 149, 618 

 120, 894 

 111,669 

 114, 817 

 174, 188 

 103, 910 

 105, 658 

 103, 650 

 115, 709 

 99, 273 

 116,912 

 133, 147 

 151, 563 

 144, 107 



1902-3 



1903-4 



1904-5 



1905-6 



1906-7 



1907-8 



1908-9 



1909-10 



1910-11 



1911-12 



1912-13 



1913-14 



1914-15 



1915-16 



1916-17 



1917-18 



1918-19 



1919-20 



1920-21 



1921-22 



1922-23 



1923-24 



Total- 



315, 307 

 220, 778 

 235, 921 

 210, 886 

 210, 107 

 299, 659 

 245, 187 

 228, 804 

 207, 010 

 172, K2 

 173, 858 

 146, 533 

 133, 202 

 146, 956 

 161, 700 

 161, 298 

 266, 532 

 250, 982 

 286, 397 

 262, 151 

 259, 542 

 290, 012 







181,174 



1882 











143, 988 



1883 











149, 380 



1884 (half 











149, 661 



year). 







153, 591 



1884-85 (fiscal 











237, 182 



year) 







198, 054 



1885-86 _ 







50, 403 

 151,112 

 281, 887 

 319, 808 

 329, 381 

 321, 712 

 381, 228 

 407, 025 

 401, 100 

 1 132, 859 

 422, 984 

 467, 299 

 441, 604 

 508, 518 

 540, 776 





179, 163 



1886-87 









167, 085 



1887-88 









143, 134 



1888-89 









142, 420 



1889-90 









102, 645 



1890-91 









40, 324 



1891-92 









48, 517 



1892-93 









86, 335 



1893-94 









67, 224 



1894-95 









101, 504 



1895-96 









86, 013 



1896-97 







31, 235 

 46, 380 

 42, 904 

 43, 534 



90, 235 



1897-98 







83, 384 



1898-99 







95, 168 



1899-1900 







104, 601 



1900-01 _ 



1901-2 













9,666,346 



5,157,694 



164, 053 



5,295,397 











1 Building open only three months of the year. 



PUBLICATIONS 



The publications issued by the Museum during the year consisted 

 of eight volumes (one Annual Eeport, one Proceedings, and six in 

 Bulletin series) and 44 separate papers. The volumes were : the 

 Annual Eeport of the Museum for 1923 ; volume 62 of the Proceed- 

 ings; Bulletin ISTo. 99, Part III, "East African mammals in the 

 United States National Museum — -Primates, Artiodactyla, Periso- 

 dactyla, Proboscidea, and Hydracoidea," by N. Hollister; two vol- 

 umes of Bulletin No. 104, " The f oraminif era of the Atlantic Ocean," 

 by Joseph Augustine Cushman, being Part 4, " Lagenidae," and 

 Part 5, " Chilostomellidae and Globigerinidae ; " Bulletin No. 125, 

 " North American later Tertiary and Quaternary bryozoa," by Ferdi- 

 nand Canu and Kay S. Bassler ; Bulletin No. 127, "Catalogue of the 

 watercraft collection in the United States National Museum," by 

 Carl W. Mitman; and Bulletin No. 128, "List of North American 

 recent mammals, 1923," by Gerrit S. Miller, jr. The separate papers 

 comprised one part from the Bulletin series, four parts of three 

 volumes in the series Contributions from the United State National 

 Herbarium, and 11 papers from volume 63, 19 papers from volume 

 64, and 9 papers from volume 65 of the Proceedings series. Bulle- 

 tin 102, Part 8, an earlier publication on " The mineral industries 

 of the United States — Manufactured gas in the home," by Samuel 



