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ACCOLIXTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSELTM. 



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 1896.) 



E. MauTicle Thompson, 

 Principal Librarian and Secretary. 



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

 Museum (N.JlTural History), Cromwell Road, in each Year from 

 1890 to 1895, inclusive. 



January - 

 February - 

 March 

 April - 

 May - 

 June - 

 July - 

 August 

 September 

 October 

 November 

 December - 



Total Number of Persons i 

 admitted to view the I 

 Natural History Collec- f 

 tions (iucludiug students) J 



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 

 32,102 

 36,841 

 26,405 

 31,923 

 47,635 

 32,217 

 31,496 

 23,366 

 27,702 



30,002 

 22,984 

 26,014 

 43,765 

 21,516 

 33,697 

 25,612 

 37,193 

 26,285 

 28,965 

 24,539 

 28,345 



1893: 



23,789 

 24,204 

 26,181 

 44,042 

 43,420 

 31,134 

 36,714 

 59,072 

 30,011 

 34,848 

 26,847 

 27,946 



1894: 

 30,093 

 27,884 

 44,117 

 29,260 

 40,248 

 30,586 

 29,752 

 54,t>06 

 32,375 

 34,152 

 27,308 

 33,191 



413,572 



1895: 



28,073 

 19,986 

 30,532 

 57,730 

 35,112 

 42,019 

 40,120 

 69,762 

 27,121 

 33,573 

 29,822 

 32,887 



Number of Visits to particular 

 Departments, for the purposc- 

 of Study— 



^lOOI^OGY - 



■Geology 



Mineralogy 



BOTANY - 



18S0: 



1891: 



1892: 



1893: 



1894: 



9,034 



9,443 



10,932 



10,872 



10,730 



3,771 



2,961 



4,107 



4,955 



5,176 



623 



946 



1,751 



1,714 



1,994 



1,244 



2,226 



2,585 



2.274 



2,129 



20,029 



14,672 



15,576 



19,375 



19,815 



1895; 

 8,189 

 5,986 

 2,073 

 2,206 



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. 



*■' See postscript on p. 13. 



