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ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM. 



1889. The average daily number of readers has thus been 

 652. The average numbers in the room counted at certain 

 hours of the afternoon have been : — 



4 P.M. 

 364 



5 P.M. 



268 



6 P.M. 



194 



6.30 P.M. 

 122 



7 P.M. 



130 



7.30 P.M. 

 94 



Although the increasing number of readers occasionally 

 taxes the sitting accommodation of the room to its utmost 

 limits, the better enforcement of regulations regarding the 

 retention of seats has reduced any inconvenience to a mini- 

 mum, and normally the accommodation is found amply 

 sufficient for the demand. 



The number of volumes supplied to readers was 1,226,126, 

 as against 1,211,420 in 1889. 



The system of ventilation of the Reading Room has been 

 thoroughly overhauled and put in good working order. 



Presentations of Museum publications have been made to a 

 large number of free public libraries, local museums, and art 

 schools throughout the United Kingdom, 



The distribution of duplicate printed books, pamphlets, &c., 

 has been completed, thirty-seven libraries throughout the 

 United Kingdom having participated. 



The following are amon^ 

 Museum : — 



the principal donations to the 



From Lord Savile, g.c.b, an archaic terra-cotta antefix, 

 from Lanuvium. 



From the Earl of Derby, e.g., a choice series of stone and 

 flint implements from Denmark, &c. 



From the Earl of Lonsdale, a large ethnographical col- 

 lection from North-West and Arctic America. 



From the Hon. Robert Meade, C.B., choice specimens of 

 Chinese egg-shell and other porcelain. 



From J. E. Nightingale, Esq., specimens of Bristol and 

 Plymouth porcelain. 



From Lady Charlotte Schreiber, watches and mediaeval 

 antiquities. 



From A. W. Franks, Esq., c.B., specimens of porcelain of 

 difFerent countries, in augmentation of the Franks collection, 

 and various antiquities. 



From Mrs. Hanna Streatfeild, collections for a history of 

 Kent, formed by the Rev. Thomas Streatfield and the Rev. 

 L. B. Larking. 



From Miss Elizabeth Moreton, correspondence and papers 

 of the family of Moreton of Moreton, co, Chester, temp. 



Henry VII. 



