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ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH 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, 

 31 March 1894. 



E. Maunde Thompson, 

 Principal Librarian and Secretary. 



-Persons a.dmitted to view the Collections in the British 

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

 1888 to 1893, inclusive. 



Januaby 



February 



March 



April 



May 



June 



July 



August 



September ... - 



October 



November . . . . 

 December - - - • . 



Total Number of Persons i 

 admitted to view the [ 

 Natural History CoUec- I 

 tions (including Students) J 



28,096 

 22,093 

 32,622 

 47,926 

 37,822 

 27,967 

 33,758 

 43,073 

 27,404 

 22,225 

 21,491 

 28,326 



24,099 

 20,391 

 30,294 

 49,262 

 31,866 

 42,201 

 28,485 

 40,138 

 25,262 

 23,264 

 20,319 

 24,865 



361,046 



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 



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 



375,906 



30,002 

 22,984 

 26,014 

 43,765 

 24,516 

 33,697 

 25,612 

 37,193 

 26,285 

 28,965 

 24,539 

 28,345 



1891 : 

 23,789 

 24,204 

 26,181 

 44,043 

 43,420 

 31,134 

 36,714 

 59,072 

 30,011 

 34,848 

 26,847 

 27,946 



Number of Visits to particular 

 Departments, for tlie purpose 

 of study— 



Zoology 



Geology 



Mineralogy 



Botany - 



1887: 

 8,955 

 3,290 

 620 

 1,483 



8,797 



3,111 



733 



2,214 



3,33S 



683 



1,344 



13,726 



1890: 

 9,034 

 3,771 

 623 

 1,244 



14,672 



1891: 

 9,443 

 2,961 

 946 

 2,226 



1892: 

 10,932 

 4,107 

 1,751 

 2,585 



10,872 

 4,955 

 1,714 

 2,274 



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 



