ACCOUNTS, &C. OF BRITISH MUSEUM. 



VI._A MOUNT OF GRANT required for the Service of the Year ending Lady-day 1845. 



Estimated Charge from Lady-day 1844 to Lady-day 1845 - - - - * - 30,437 14 10" 

 Deduct Sums available for the Service of that year, as specified under No. V. - I'soi 6 8 



Add the Fraction of £. 1 



37,986 8 2 

 - 11 10 



£. ' 37,987 - 



VIL— ACCOUNT OF THE EXPENDITURE OF A SPECIAL PARLIAMENTARY GRANT 



received during the Year ending Christmas 1843. 



„ , , £. s. d. 



Received the Amount of Grant, made 7 April 1843 _._... 5 275 - - 



Paid on account of Printed Books, Coins and Manuscripts, from the Collection at 

 Strawberry Hill ----.__-_.-_ 



Antique Vases, from tlic Collection of the late Prince of Canino - - - - 

 Botanical Specimens, from the Collection of the late Aylmer Bourke Lambert, esq. - 

 Syriac Manuscripts, purchased in Egj'pt by the Rev. II. Tattam - - - - 

 A Collection of Engravings, the Works of Raphael Morghen - _ _ . 



Received on account of Grant for ihe purchase of Land and Houses required for the 

 purposes of the new Buildings --___>.____ 



Paid for the Leases, Fixtures, &c., of Three Houses in Great Russell-street 



Paid Surveying Charges ---._-.---.- 



1,018 - - 



1,300 - - 



384 - - 



1,000 - - 



1,575 - - 



5,275 



6,019 13 2 



5,910 10 - 

 109 3 2 



6,019 13 2 



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

 Persons admitted to view the General Collections from Christmas 1837 to Christmas 1843. 





From 



From 



From 



From 



From 



From 





Christinas 18-37 



Cliristmas 1838 



Christmas 1839 



Christmas 1840 



Christmas 1841 



Christmas 1842 





Christmas 1838. 



Christmas 1839. 



Christmas 1840. 



Christmas 1841. 



Christmas 1842. 



Christmas 1843. 





NO 



N" 



N" 



N" 



NO 



N" 



January 



8,861 



14,658 



11,859 



9,476 



20,471 



25,981 



February 



8,311 



1 1,625 



11,072 



7,535 



22,068 



16,221 



March - 



16,041 



14,973 



13,591 



16,059 



40,478 



24,914 



April - 



40,272 



40,523 



80,671 



30,697 



36,444 



47,403 



May 



18,073 



35,711 



21,027 



28,208 



57,069 



80,130 



June 



49,447 



2-3,611 



41,529 



36,099 



66,107 



72,693 



July 



34,215 



46,584 



46,713 



38,759 



87,138 



66,600 



August - 



26,247 



28,855 



24,224 



44,241 



85,989 



78,6.59 



September - 



14,060 



21,836 



12,872 



26,863 



86,925 



44,392 



October 



17,677 



15,.531 



14,917 



24,112 



26,578 



29,336 



November 



10,467 



9,884 



8,295 



19,489 



18,719 



21,055 



December 



22,837 



17,159 



11,169 



37,836 



59,732 



60,056 





266,008 



280,850 



247,929 



319,,374 



647,718 



517,440 



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

 1810; 4,800 in 1815; 8,820 in 1820; 22,800 in 1825 ; 81,200 in 1830 ; 63,466 in 1835 ; 67,542 in 1840 ; 

 69,303 in 1841 ; 71,706 in 1842 ; 70.931 in 1843. 



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

 about 4,988 in 1831 ; 6,081 in 1835 ; 6,354 in 1840; 5,655 in 1841 ; 5,627 in 1842; 4,907 in 1843. 



Number of Visits made to the Print Room, about 4,400 in 1832; 1,065 in 1835; 6,717 in 1840 ; 7,744 in 

 1841 ; 8,781 in 1842; 8,162 in 1843. 



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 hours 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 Cliristmas-djiy, and also on any 

 Special Fast or Thanksgiving Days ordered by Authority'. 



British Museum, 

 13 January 1844, 



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Mawer Cowtan, 



Accountant. 



