ACCOUNTS, &C. OF BRITISH MUSEUM. 



VI.— ACCOUNT OF SPECIAL PARLIAMENTARY GRANTS for the Year 

 ending Christmas 1848. 



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

 Balance in hand on this Account at Christmas 1847 .-:----. 



Paid on this Account during the Year ending December 25, 18-48 

 Cash in hand on this Account - 



- £. 



Received on account of Grant for Verstolk's Prints and Drawings 

 Paid on this Account during the Year ending December 26, 1848 



Received on account of Grant for Prints, Etchings and Drawings belonging to Messrs. 

 Smith --------------- 



Paid on this Account during the Year ending December 25, 1848 _ _ - . 



£. s. d. 

 500 - - 

 417 11 7 



917 11 7 

 561 10 6 



356 1 1 



£. s. d. 

 566 16 - 



566 16 - 



s. d. 



4,200 

 4,200 



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

 Persons admitted to view the General Collections from Christmas 1842 to Christmas 1848. 





From 



From 



From 



From 



From 



From 





Christmas 1842 



Christmas 1843 



Christmas 1844 



Christmas 1845 



Christmas 1846 



Christmas 1847 





to 



to 



to 



to 



to 



to 





Christmas 1843. 



Christmas 1844. 



Christmas 1845. 



Christmas 1846. 



Christmas 1847. 



Christmas 1848. 





N° 



N" 



N" 



N" 



N" 



N° 



January 



25,981 



37,179 



23,353 



40,737 



39,167 



67,781 



February 



16,221 



19,705 



22,638 



36,875 



26,113 



76,934 



March - 



24,914 



26,780 



46,452 



51,141 



87,288 



81,424 



April - 



47,403 



58,689 



43,768 



90,625 



89,618 



78,048 



May 



30,130 



83,876 



113,956 



61,660 



100,468 



60,547 



June 



72,693 



69,972 



68,970 



99,273 



96,564 



89,546 



July 



66,600 



85,320 



82,462 



87,210 



82,026 



111,220 



August - 



78,659 



66,264 



71,393 



101 ,.506 



80,136 



88,585 



September 



44,392 



43,547 



53,882 



45,119 



80,636 



66,227 



October 



29,336 



27,374 



55,829 



4.3,605 



(58,834 



62,008 



November 



21,055 



20,212 



34,181 



47,732 



89,099 



60,256 



December 



60,056 



46,840 



78,730 



55,218 



81,017 



75,409 





517,440 



675,758 



685,614 



750,601 



820,965 



897,985 



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 1835 ; 67,542 in 1840; 69,303 in 

 1841 ; 71,706 in 1842 ; 70,931 in 1843 ; 67,511 in 1844 ; 64,427 in 1845 ; 66,784 in 1846; 67,525 in 1847 ; 

 65,867 in 1848. 



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 1836; 6,-354 in 1840; 5,656 in 1841 ; 6,627 in 1842; 4,907 in 1843; 5,436 in 

 1844 ; 4,266 ui 1845 ; 4,124 in 1846 ; 8,508 in 1847 ; 3,694 in 1848. 



Number of Visits made to the Print Roohi, 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 ; 5,904 in 1845 ; 4,390 in 1846 ; 4,672 in 1847 ; 6,813 

 in 1848. 



Mem. — The Public are admitted to the British Museum on Mondays, Wednesdays a,ni\ 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 1st 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 Septem- 

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

 September. 



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, \ 

 9 January 1849. i 



Richard W. Pearson, 



Accountant (pro tern.) 



