ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM. 13 



The Exhibition Galleries of the British Museum (Natural 

 History), Cromwell Road, South Kensington, including the 

 Departments of Zoology, Entomology, Geology and Palaeon- 

 tology, Mineralogy, and Botany, are open to the public, 

 free, daily, except Good Friday and Christmas Day, and days 

 of Public Fast or Thanksgiving. 



The hours of Admission are as under : — 



On Weekdays, throughout the year from 10 a.m., in 



January and February - - - to 5 p.m. 

 March _---.-„ 5.30 „ 



April to August - - - - „ 6 ,, 



September _-_--„ 5.30 „ 



October, November, and December - ,, 5 „ 



also, on Mondays and Saturdays only, from the beginning 

 of May to the middle of July, to 8 p.m., and from the middle 

 of July to the end of August, to 7 p.m. 



On Sundays, in 



January _ . _ . from 2 to 4 p.m. 



February 1st to 14th - - „ 2 „ 4.30 „ 



February 15th to end - - „ 2 „ 5 „ 



March . . _ . „ 2 „ 5.30 „ 



April - - - - - „ 2 „ G 



May to August - - - „ 2.30 „ 7 



September - - - - ,, 2 ,, 5.30 „ 



October ----,, 2 „ 5 ,, 



November and December - „ 2 ,, 4 „ 



Persons are admitted to study in these Departments every 

 weekday from 10 till 4 o'clock. 



British Museum (Natural History ),-| L. Fletcher, 



28 February, 1914. .• Director of the Natural 



^ History Departments. 



IX. — General Progress at the Museum, Bloomsbury. 



The year 1913 showed a very remarkable increase in the 

 number of visitors to the Museum, the total amounting to 

 947,090, as compared with 754,872 in the previous year. The 

 rise has been almost continuous since 1907, when the total 

 was 646,300, but the present increase is greatly in excess of 

 any previously recorded. The total is the highest on record with 

 the exception of 1904, when the number returned was 954,551. 

 The figures for week-days only is 884,028, a total of over 

 100,000 having been reached in both August and September. 



