10 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM. 



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

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

 1885 to 1890, inclusive. 



January 



February 



March 



April 



May 



June 



July 



August 



September . . . . 



October 



November . . . . 

 december 



Total Number of Persons i 

 admitted to view the [ 

 Natural History Collec- ( 

 tions (including Students) J 



Number of Visits to particular 

 Departments, for the purpose 

 of Study— 



Zoology 



Geology 



mineralogy - ^ - - - 



Botany 



1886 : 



2r,253 

 23,916 

 27,849 

 40,080 

 31,416 

 35,301 

 31,331 

 52,525 

 35,540 

 33,122 

 22,936 

 21,473 



382,742 



1887 : 



24,529 

 21,560 

 27,431 

 40,207 

 36,126 

 27,742 

 27,114 

 36,584 

 29,817 

 29,424 

 23,170 

 34,474 



28,095 

 22,093 

 32,622 

 47,926 

 37,822 

 27,967 

 33,758 

 43,073 

 27,404 

 22,225 

 21,491 

 28,326 



24,699 

 20,391 

 . 30,294 

 49,262 

 31,866 

 42,201 

 28,485 

 40,138 

 25,262 

 23,264 

 20,319 

 24,865 



24,273 

 17,937 

 22,439 

 45,309 

 38,034 

 32,381 

 29,820 

 40,434 

 29,329 

 28,138 

 23,144 

 24,444 



355,682 



1884: 

 6,818 

 1,991 



1885: 

 8,313 

 1,959 

 626 

 1,105 



8,372 



2,466 



761 



1,026 



8,955 



3,290 



620 



1,483 



8,797 



3,111 



733 



2,214 



12,625 14,348 14,855 13,726 14,672 



8,360 



3,339 



683 



1,344 



9,034 

 3,771 



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. 



The Hours of Admission are from — 



10 a.m. till 4 p.m. in January, November and December. 



10 a.m. till 4.30 p.m. in February. 



10 a m. till 5 p.m. in October. 



10 a.m. till 5.30 p.m. in March and September, 



10 a.m. till 6 p.m. in April, May, June, July and August. 



10 a.m. till 8 p.m. on Monday and Saturday only, from 



1st May to the middle of July. 

 10 a.m. till 7 p.m. on Monday and Saturday only, 

 from the middle of July to the end of August. 



Persons are admitted daily to study in these Departments 

 from 10 till 4 o'clock. 



British Museum (Natural History), 

 1 January 1891. 



W. H. Flower, 



Director 



