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ACCOUNTS, ETC.,- OF THE- BllITIStI MUSEUM. 



Students are admitted generally to the several Departments 

 from 10 till 4 o'clock : to the Sculpture Galleries from 

 9 o'clock till the hour of general closing ; and to the Print 

 Room from 10 till 4 o'clock from January to March, 

 •and from August to December, and from 10 till 5 from April 

 to July. 



British Museum,) 

 SI March 1896.) 



E. Maunde Thomipson, 

 Principal Librarian and Secretary. 



B. — ^Persons admitted to view the Collections in the British 

 Museum (Natural History), Cromwell Koad, in each Year from 

 1890 to 1895, inclusive. 



January - 

 February - 

 March 

 April - 

 May - 

 •June - 

 July - 

 August 

 ■September 

 ■October - 



ZSfOVEMBER 



December - 



Total Number of Persons 

 admitted to view tlie 

 Natural History Collec- i 

 tions (includiug Students) J 



24,273 

 17,937 

 22,439 

 45,309 

 38,034 

 32,381 

 29,820 

 40,434 

 29,329 

 28,138 

 23,144 

 24,444 



1891: 

 25,146 

 •21,376 

 39,697 

 32,102 

 36,841 

 26,405 

 31,923 

 47,635 

 32,217 

 31,496 

 23,366 

 27,702 



1892: 

 30,002 

 22,984 

 26,014 

 43,765 

 24,516 

 33,697 

 25,612 

 37,193 

 26,285 

 28,965 

 24,539 

 28,345 



23,789 

 24,204 

 26,181 

 44,042 

 43,420 

 31,134 

 36,714 

 59,072 

 30,011 

 34,848 

 2G,847 

 27,946 



1894: 

 30,093 

 27,884 

 44,117 

 29,260 

 40,248 

 30,586 

 29.752 

 54,606 

 32,375 

 34,152 

 27,303 

 33,191 



28,073 

 19,986 

 30,532 

 57,730 

 35,112 

 42,019 

 40,120 

 69,762 

 27,121 

 33,573 

 29,822 

 32,887 



Number of Visits to particular 

 Departments, for the purpose 

 of Study— 



'Zoology - 

 Geology - 

 mineralogy 

 Botany - 



1890: 



1891 : 



1892: 



1893 : 



1894: 



9,034 



9,443 



10,932 



10,872 



10,730 



3,771 



2,961 



4,107 



. 4,955 



5,176 



623 



946 



1,751 



1,714 



1,994 



1,244 



2,226 



2,585 



2,274 



2,129 

 20,029 



14,672 



15,576 



19,375 



19,815 



1895; 

 8,189 

 5,986 

 2,073 



2,206 



The Exhibition Galleries of the British Museum (Natural 

 History), Cromwell-road, South Kensington, including the 

 Departments of Zoology, Geology and Palaeontology, Mine- 

 ralogy, and Botany, are open to the public, free, every day of 

 the week, except Sunday,* and except Good Friday and Christ- 

 mas-day, and days of Public Fast or Thanksgiving. 



* See postscript on p. 13. 



