ACCOUNTS, &C. OP BRITISH MUSEUM. 



VIII.— RETURN of the NUMBER OF PERSONS ADMITTED TO VISIT THE BRITISH MUSEUM. 



Persons admitted to view the Genjeral Collections from Christmas 1835 to Christmas 1841. 





From 



From 



From 



From 



From 



From 





Christmas 1835 



to 

 Christmas 1836. 



Christmas 1836 



to 

 Christmas 1837. 



Christmas 1837 



Christmas 1838 



Chiistmas 1839 



Christmas 1840 





Christmas 1838. 



Christmas 1839. 



Christmas 1840. 



Christmas 1841. 





NO 



NO 



N" 



N" 



N» 



N° 



January 



28,292 



11,042 



8,861 



14,668 



11,8.59 



9,476 



February 



21,738 



13,769 



8,.311 



11,625 



11,072 



7,535 



March - 



20,149 



48,557 



16,041 



14,973 



13,.591 



16,059 



April - 



21,673 



21,007 



40,272 



40,523 



30,671 



30,697 



May 



38,388 



70,122 



18,073 



35,711 



21,027 



28,208 



June 



66,229 



27,044 



49,447 



28,511 



41,529 



36,099 



July 



67,859 



38,191 



34,215 



46,584 



46,713 



38,759 



August - 



76,195 



28,238 



26,247 



28,855 



24,224 



44,241 



September - 



348 



18,866 



14,060 



21,836 



12,872 



26,863 



October 



30,549 



17,210 



17,677 



15,631 



14,917 



24,112 



November 



13,413 



9,974 



10,467 



9,884 



8,295 



19,489 



December 



9,464 



17,131 



22,387 



17,159 



11,159 



37,836 





383,147 



321,151 



266,008 



280,850 



247,929 



319,374 



Number of Visits made to the Reading Rooms, for the purpose of Study or Research, about 1,950 in 

 1810; 4,-300 in 1815; 8,820 in 1820; 22,800 in 1825 ; 31,200 in 1830 ; 68,466 in 1835 ; 62,360 in 1836 ; 

 69,986 in 1837 ; 64,843 in 1888 ; 69,216 in 1889 ; 67,542 in 1840 ; 69,303 in 1841. 



Number of Visits, by Artists and Students, to the Galleries of Sculpture, for the purpose of Study, 

 4,938 in 1831; 4,740 in 1832; 4,490 in 1833; 5.645 in 1834; 6,081 in 1835; 7,052 in 1886; 5,570 in 

 1837; 6,016 in 1838; 4,841 iu 1839; 6,854 in 1840; 5,655 in 1841. 



Number of Visits made to the Prmt Room, about 4,400 m 1832 ; 2,900 in 1888 ; 2,204 in 1834 ; 1,065 in 

 1885; 2,916 in 1886; 4,429 m 1887; 5,017 in 1838; 6,937 in 1889; 6,717 in 1840; 7,744 in 1841. 



Mem. — The Public are admitted to the British Museum on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays, between 

 the hours of Ten and Four, from the 7th September to the 1st May ; and between the houi-s of Ten 

 and Seven, from the 7th May to the 1 st September. 



Persons applying for the purpose of Study or Research are admitted to the Reading Rooms every 

 day, from Nine o'clock in the Morning until Four in the Afternoon, between the 7th of September 

 and the 1st of May, and until Seven in the Evening between the 7th of May and the 1st of Sep- 

 tember. 



Artists are admitted to study in the Galleries of Sculpture, between the hours of Nine and Four, 

 every day, except Saturday. 



The Museum is closed from the 1st to the 7th January, the 1st to 7th May, and the 1st to 

 7th September inclusive, on Ash Wednesday, Good Friday and Christmas-day, and also on any 

 Special Fast or Thanksgiving Days ordered by Authority. 



British Museum, \ 

 10 January 1842. J 



Mawer Cowtan, 



Accountant. 



-STATEMENT of Progress made in the Cataloguing and Arrangement of the 

 Collections, and Account of Objects added to the several Departments of 

 the Museum, in the Year ending 25 December 1841. 



IX.- 



The Catalogue of the Sloane Manuscripts has been partly prepared, in copy, from 

 No. 3,130 to No. 3,630, with some exceptions. The Index to the printed sheets of the 

 Sloane Catalogue has been continued to No. 1,090. 



The Lists of Additions for the years 1837, 1838, 1839 and 1840, have been printed off. 



A General Index to the Additions, from 1836 to 1840 inclusive, has been partly prepared 

 for press. 



An Index to the additional Charters, Nos. 1 — 1,249, has been partly made. 



One hundred and seventy Arabic Manuscripts have been described for the general 

 Catalogue of Oriental Manuscripts. 



The Catalogue of Maps, Plans and Topographical Drawings has been partly printed off, 

 vol. 1, pp.1 — 304. 



The additional Manuscripts, from No. 11,704 to No. 12,132 inclusive, have been arranged, 

 numbered and stamped. 



The Egerton Manuscripts, from No. 809 to No. 930 inclusive, have been arranged, 

 numbered, bound and stamped. 



The additional Charters and Rolls have been arranged and numbered from No. 4,718 to 

 No. 5,961, and stamped from No. 4,718 to No. 4,892 inclusive. 



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