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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 

 5 o'clock till the hour of general closing ; and to the Print 

 Hoom 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 1895. 



E. Maunde Thompson, 

 Principal Librarian and Secretary. 



B. Persons admitted to view the Collections in the British 



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

 1889 to 1894, inclusive. 



January - 

 -Fbbkuary - 

 March 



APRIIi - 

 MAY - 



June - 



July - 



August 



Sbptember 



October 



November 



December - 



Total Number of Persons "i 

 admitted to view the (^ 

 Natural History Collec- t 

 tions (including Students) J 



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 



25,146 

 21,376 

 39,697 

 32,102 

 36,841 

 26,405 

 31,923 

 47,635 

 32,217 

 31,496 

 23,366 

 27,702 



1892: 

 30,002 

 22,984 

 26,014 

 43,765 

 24,516 

 83,697 

 25,612 

 37,193 

 26,285 

 28,965 

 24,539 

 28,345 



1898: 

 23,789 

 24,204 

 26,181 

 44,042 

 43,420 

 31,134 

 36,714 

 69,073 

 30,011 

 34,848 

 36,847 

 37,946 



Number of Visits to particular 

 Departments, for the purpose 

 of Study— 



ZOOLOGY - 



GEOLOGY - 



mineralogy 

 Botany - 



1889. 

 8,360 

 3,339 



1890: 

 9,034 

 3,771 

 623 

 1,244 



13,726 14,672 



1891: 

 9,443 

 2,961 

 946 

 2,226 



15,576 



1892: 

 10,932 

 4,107 

 1,751 

 2,585 



10,873 

 4,955 

 1,714 

 2,274 



1894: 

 30,093 

 27,884 

 44,117 

 29,260 

 40,248 

 30,686 

 29,752 

 54,606 

 32,375 

 34,152 

 27,308 

 33,191 



19,815 20,029 



1894: 

 10,730 

 5,176 

 1,994 

 2,129 



The Exhibition Galleries of the British Museum (Natural 

 History), Cromvt^ell-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 



