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ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM. 



Students are admitted generally to the several Departments, 

 on week-days, from 10 till 4 o'clock : to the Sculpture Galleries 

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

 Koom 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, 

 31 March 1898. 



E. Maunde Thompson, 

 Principal Librarian and Secretary. 



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

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

 1892 to 1897, inclusive. 





1892: 



1893: 



1894: 



1895: 



1896: 



1897 : 













Week- 

 days. 



Sun- 

 days. 



Week- 

 days. 



Sun- 

 days. 



January 





80,003 



23,789 



30,093 



28,073 



33,238 



— 



38,230 



2,446 



February 





22,984 



24,204 



27,884 



19,986 



27,818 



_ 



23,318 



3,501 



MARCH - 





26,014 



26,181 



44,117 



30,532 



28,333 



_ 



29,376 



4,548 



April - 





43,765 



44,042 



29,260 



57,730 



63,520 



— 



49,802 



5,327 



MAY - 





24,516 



43,42» 



40,248 



35,112 



36,225 



5,419 



26,138 



5,413 



Junk 





33,697 



31,134 



30,586 



42,019 



27,927 



6,376 



35,325 



2,979 



July 





25,612 



36,714 



29,752 



40,120 



31,303 



3,713 



27,792 



3,712 



August 





37,193 



59,072 



54,606 



69,762 



47,864 



6,390 



40,100 



6,114 



SEPTEMBER 





26,285 



30,011 



32,375 



27,121 



36,541 



5,920 



30,065 



5,364 



OCTOBER 





28,965 



34,84S 



34.152 



33,573 



35,455 



3,854 



26,828 



6,190 



NOVEMBER 





24,539 



26,847 



27,308 



29,822 



27,832 



3,045 



20,900 



2,526 



DECEMBER - 



28,345 



27,946 



3 



41 



3,191 



32,887 



30,977 



2,206 



24,993 



1,620 



Total Number of 

 Persons admitted to 



351,917 



1 



408,208 



3,572 



446,737 



417,033 



36,92; 





372,867 



49,740 



History Collections 

 (includingStudents) 





453 



,956 



422,607 



Number of Visits t 

 Departments, for 

 of Study— 



3 particular 

 the purpose 



1892: 



1893: 



1894: 





1895: 



1896: 



1897: 



ZOOLOtiY - - - 



- . . 



10,932 



10,872 



10,730 





8,189 



7,995 



9,708 



Geology - - - 



. . . 



4,107 



4,955 



5,176 





5,986 



5,923 



4,889 



MlKERALOGY - - 



. . . 



1,751 



1,714 



1,994 





2,073 



1,841 



1,248 



BOTAKT - 



'AL - - - 



2,58. 

 19,375 





2,274 



2,129 





2,206 



2,555 



2,718 ., 



TOl 





19,815 



20,029 



18,454 



18,314 



18,563 



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, daily 

 except Good Friday and Christmas Day, and days of Public 

 Fast or Thanksgiving. 



