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ACCOUNTS, &C. OF BRITISH MUSEUM. 



VI.— ACCOUNT OF SPECIAL PARLIAMENTARY GRANTS for the Year 



ending Christmas 1847. 



Cash in hand December 26, 1846, on account of Grant for classifying and preparing £. g. d. 



Fossils from the Sub-Himalayan Mountains .---__.. J27 g 11 



Paid on this Account during the Year ending December 25, 1847 - - - . j27 8 11 



Received on account of Grant for the removal of Marbles from Bodroon 



Deduct Sum due on this Account in the Year ending December 25, 1846 - 



Paid on this Account during the Year ending December 25, 1847 - - - 



Cash in hand on this Account ------£. 



Received on account of Grant for Excavations, &c. in Kurdistan, and Transport of 

 Marbles ------------- 



Deduct Sum due on this Account in the Year ending December 25, 1846 



Paid on this Account dui-ing the Year ending December 25, 1847 - - - 

 Cash in hand on this Account ----- 



- 



£. s. 



352 - 



30 2 



d. 

 6 



_ 



321 17 

 321 - 



6 



■ £. 



- 17 



6 



3rt of 



£. s. 



2,800 - 

 204 10 



d. 



- 



2,595 10 

 2,177 18 



5 



£. 



417 11 



7 



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

 Persons admitted to view the General Collections from Christmas 1841 to Christmas 1847. 





From 



From 



From 



From 



From 



From 





Christmas 1841 



Christmas 1842 



to 

 Christmas 1 843. 



Christinas 1843 

 to 



Christmas 1844. 



Christmas 1844 



to 

 Christmas 1845. 



Christmas 1845 



Christmas 1346 



to 

 Christmas 1847. 





Christmas 1842. 



Christmas 1846. 





N» 



N" 



NO 



NO 



NO 



January 



20,471 



25,981 



37,179 



23,353 



40,737 



39,167 



February 



22,068 



16,221 



19,705 



22,638 



36,875 



26,113 



March - 



40,478 



24,914 



26,780 



46,452 



51,141 



37,288 



April - 



36,444 



47,403 



68,689 



43,768 



90,625 



89,618 



May - 



57,069 



30,130 



83,876 



113,956 



51,660 



100,468 



June 



56,107 



72,093 



59,972 



58,970 



99,273 



96,564 



July 



87,138 



66,600 



85,320 



82,462 



87,210 



82,025 



August - 



85,989 



78,659 



66,264 



71,393 



101,506 



80,136 



September - 



36,925 



44,392 



43,547 



53,882 



45,119 



80,636 



October 



26,578 



29,336 



27,374 



65,829 



43,505 



08,834 



November 



18,719 



21,056 



20,212 



84,181 



47,732 



39,099 



December 



59,732 



60,056 



46,840 



78,730 



55,218 



81,017 





547,718 



517,440 



576,758 



685,614 



750,601 



820,965 



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 1826 ; 31,200 in 1830 ; 63,466 in 1836 ; 67,542 in 1840 ; 

 69,303 in 1841 ; 71 ,706 in 1842 ; 70,931 in 1843; 67,511 ml844; 64,427 in 1845; 66,784 in 1846 ; 67,525 

 in 1847. 



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

 about 4,938 in 1831 ; 6,081 in 1835; 6,364 in 1840; 6,656 in 1841 ; 5,627 in 1842; 4,907 in 1843; 6,436 

 in 1844; 4,256 in 1845 ; 4,124 in 1846 ; 3,508 in 1847. 



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 ; 8,998 in 1844 ; 6,904 in 1846 ; 4,390 m 1846 ; 4,572 in 1847. 



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 uiitil 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 Jst 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, T 

 15 January 1848. J 



Richard W. Pearson, 



Accountant (jpro tern.) 



