ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM. 



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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 - - _ 



February 1st to 14th - 



February 15th to end - 



March - - _ 



April - - - - 



May to August 



September - - - 



October _ _ _ 



November and December 



from 2 to 4 



p.m. 



>, 2 



4.30 , 



9 



5 



„ 2 



5.30 , 



„ 2 



6 



„ 2.30 „ 



7 , 



2 



5.30 , 



,',' 2 



5 



2 



4 



Persons are admitted to study in these Departments every 

 weekdav from 10 till 4 o'clock. 



British Museum (Natural History),] 

 27 February, 1915. J 



L. Fletcher, 

 Director of the Natural 

 History Departments. 



VIII. — General Progress at the Museum, Bloomsbury. 



The figures of attendances at the Museum during the year 

 1914 were naturally affected very materially by the war. 

 Up to the end of June the number of visitors showed a 

 considerable advance (amounting to over 31,000) even on the 

 exceptionally high figures of 1913. In August and September, 

 however, there was a falling off of more than 100,000, and 

 considerable reductions in each of the following months, with 

 the result that the year closed with a total of 814,517 visits, 

 or 132,573 less than in 1913, though still in excess of all the 

 years from 1905 to 1912 inclusive. 



