ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE EEITISH MUSEUM. 



X. —British Museum (Natural History). 



STATEMENT of Progress made in the Arrangement and 

 Description of the Collections, and Account of 

 Objects added to them, in the Year 1903. 



General Progress. 



Visitor's. 



The total number of visits paid by the public to the 

 galleries of the Natural History Museum during the year 

 was 480,733, as compared with 433,619 in 1902, an increase 

 oi over 53,000. This is the largest total which has been 

 attained in any year since the opening of the Museum to the 

 public, the previous largest being 485,288 in 1900. On 

 Sundays 63,188 visits were recorded as against 61,035 in 

 1902. 



The average daily attendance for all open days during the 

 year was 1,340-8; for week-days only, 1,361-8; and for 

 Sunday afternoons, 1,215 • 1. 



Electric Light. 



Progress has been made with the lighting of the studies 

 and workrooms of the Museum by electricity as far as the 

 limited sum (500^.) provided in the Estimates (Class I.) 

 would allow. 



Flower Memorial. 



A bust, in white marble, of the late Sir W. H. Flower, 

 Director of the Natural History Departments of the British 

 Museum (1884-98), the work of Mr. Thomas Brock, R.A., has 

 been presented to the Trustees by the Flower Memorial 

 Committee. 



The bust, which has been placed in the Central Hall of 

 the Museum, was formally unveiled on the 25th July by 

 His Grace the Archbishop of Canterbury. 



Swiney Lectures. 



Dr. Flett delivered his third course of Swiney Lectures on 

 Geology during November, the subject being "The Volcanoes 

 of the World." The lectures, twelve in number, were again 

 delivered in the lecture-theatre of the Victoria and Albert 

 Museum, by permission of the Board of Education, and were 

 attended by an average of 299 persons per lecture, as 

 compared with 288 in 1902. 



