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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, 

 30 March 1893. 



E. Maunde Thompson. 

 Principal Librarian and Secretary. 



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

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



1887 to 1892, inclusive. 



January 



Pbbbuary 



March 



April 



May 



June 



July 



August 



September .... 



October 



November .... 

 December - . - • . 



Total Number of Persons'] 

 admitted to view the (^ 

 Natural History Collec- ( 

 tions (including Students) J 



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 



1888 : 

 28,095 

 22,093 

 32,622 

 47,926 

 37,822 

 27,967 

 33,758 

 43,073 

 27,404 

 22,225 

 21,491 

 28,326 



Number of Visits to particular 

 Departments, for the purpose 

 of Study— 



ZOOLOGY - 



Geology 



Mineralogy 



botany .-..-- 



8,372 



2,466 



761 



1,026 



1887: 

 8,955 

 3,290 



24,699 

 20,391 

 30,294 

 49,262 

 31,866 

 42,201 

 28,485 

 40,138 

 25,262 

 23,264 

 20,319 

 24,865 



1890: 

 24,273 

 17,937 

 22,439 

 45,309 

 38,034 

 32,381 

 29,820 

 40,434 

 29,329 

 28,138 

 23,144 

 24,444 



1891: 



25,146 

 21,376 

 39,697 

 32,10i 

 36,841 

 26,406 

 31,923 

 47,635 

 32,217 

 31,496 

 23,366 

 27,702 



1892 : 



30,002 

 22,984 

 26,014 

 43,765 

 24,516 

 33,697 

 25,612 

 37,193 

 26,285 

 28,965 

 24,539 

 28,345 



351,917 



8,797 



3,111 



733 



2,214 



14,855 



3,339 



683 



1,344 



13,726 



1890: 

 9,034 

 3,771 



1891: 

 9,44S 

 2,961 

 946 

 2,226 



1892: 

 10,932 

 4,107 

 1,751 

 2,585 



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. 



