ACCOUNTS, &iC. OF BRITISH MUSEUM. 



VI.— ACCOUNT OF SPECIAL PARLIAMENTARY GRANT for the Year 

 endiug Christmas 1849. 



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

 Balance in hand on this Accoxint at Christmas 1848 _----.. 



Paid on this Account durmg the Year ending December 25, 1849 - 

 Cash in hand on this Account 



£. s. d. 



1,600 - - 



356 1 1 



1,856 1 1 

 837 9 4 



1,018 11 9 



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

 Persons admitted to view the General Collections from Christmas 1843 to Christmas 1849. 





From 



From 



From 



From 



From 



From 





Christmas 1843 



Christmas 1844 



Christmas 1 845 



Christmas 1846 



Christmas 1847 



Christmas 1848 















to 





Christmas 1844. 



Christmas 1845. 



Christmas 1846. 



Christmas 1847. 



Christmas 1848. 



Christmas 1849. 





N" 



N° 



N° 



N" 



NO 



NO 



January 



37,179 



23,353 



40,737 



39,167 



57,781 



57,791 



February - 



19,705 



22,638 



36,875 



26,113 



76,9.34 



49,551 



March - 



26,780 



46,452 



51,141 



37,288 



81,424 



71,726 



April - 



58,689 



43,768 



90,625 



89,618 



78,048 



104,752 



May - 



83,876 



113,956 



51,660 



100,468 



60,547 



95,594 



June 



59,972 



58,970 



99,273 



96,564 



89,546 



107,131 



July 



85,320 



82,462 



87,210 



82,025 



111,220 



97,055 



August - 



66,264 



71,393 



101,506 



80,136 



88,585 



109,709 



September - 



43,547 



53,882 



45,119 



80,636 



66,227 



58,670 



October 



27,374 



55,829 



43,505 



68,834 



62,008 



76,046 



November 



20,212 



34,181 



47,732 



39,099 



50,256 



6-2,857 



December 



46,840 



78,730 



55,218 



81,017 



75,409 



88,191 





575,758 



685,614 



750,601 



820,965 



897,985 



979,073 



Number of Visits made to the Reading Rooms, for the purpose of Study or Research, about 1,950 in 1810 ; 

 4,300 in 1816 ; 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 ; 66,867 in 1848 ; and 70,371 in 1849. 



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

 about 4,938 in 1831 ; 6,081 in 1835; 6,354 in 1840; 5,656 in 1841; 5,627 in 1842; 4,907 in 1843; 

 6,436 in 1844 ; 4,256 in 1845; 4,124 in 1846; 3,608 in 1847; 3,694 in 1848 ; 6,804 m 1849. 



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 in 1846; 4,-572 in 1847; 6,813 

 in 1848; 5,970 in 1849. 



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

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

 Ten and Seven, from the 7th of May to the 1st of 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 till Seven in the Evening between 7th of May and the 1st of Sep- 

 tember, except on Saturdays, when the Museum closes at Five o'clock. 



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 of January, the 1st to the 7th of May, und the 1st to 

 the 7th of 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 February 1850. / 



Edward M. Aston, 



Accountant. 



