ACCOUNTS, ESTIMATES, &C. OF BRITISH MUSEUM. 



VII.— RETURN of the NUMBER of PERSONS ADMITTED to VISIT the BRITISH MUSEUM. 

 Persons admitted to view the Genebai, Collections from Christmas 1849 to Christmas 1855. 





From 

 Christmas 1849 



to 

 Christmas 1860. 



From 

 Christmas 1S60 



to 

 Christmas 1851. 



From 

 Christmas 1851 



to 

 Christmas 1852. 



From 

 Christmas 1852 



to 

 Christmas 1853. 



From 

 Christmas 1853 



to 

 Christmas 1854. 



From 



Christmas 1 854 



to 





Christmas 1 855 





N° 



N° 



N° 



jyo 



N° 



NO 



January 



58,590 



94,054 



19,141 



30,205 



28,489 



10,690 



February 



49,877 



65,657 



21,782 



33,518 



31,299 



11,132 



March - 



75,862 



63,852 



32,295 



74,093 



36,201 



1.5,653 



April - 



131,000 



90,247 



46,878 



52,687 



59,189 



64,161 



May - 



110,485 



123,164 



44,555 



67,602 



31,638 



33,142 



June 



86,533 



335,550 



52,398 



53,544 



81,558 



36,251 



July 



133,520 



344,356 



36,965 



56,479 



45,710 



34,708 



August - 



109,349 



580,709 



45,872 



53,573 



36,419 



38,227 



September - 



69,894 



523,614 



40,542 



43,265 



27,749 



23,920 



October 



79,802 



239,901 



36,953 



45,814 



18,879 



21,766 



November 



86,703 



20,201 



40,285 



39,207 



18,084 



17,009 



December 



107,182 



39,911 



90,309 



105,126 



44,047 



31,427 





1,098,803 



2,527,216 



607,973 



661,113 



459,262 



L 



334,089 



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

 4,300 m 1815 ; 8,820 in 1820; 22,800 in 1825 ; 31,200 in 1830; 63,406 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; 65,807 in 1848; 70,371 in 1849; 78,533 in 1850; 78,211 in 1851; 72,226 in 1852; 67,794 in 

 1853; 56,132 in 1854; and 53,567 in 1855. 



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; 5,655 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; 3,094 in 1848; 6,804 in 1849; 6,611 in 

 1850 ; 6,086 in 1851 ; 6,983 in 1852; 0.518 in 1853 ; 3,652 in 1854 ; and 3,594 in 1855. 



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 ; 8,102 in 1843 ; 8,998 in 1844 ; 5,904 in 1845 ; 4,390 in 1846 ; 4,572 in 1847 ; 5,813 

 in 1848; 5,970 in 1849; 3,745 in 1860; 3,807 in 1851 ; 3,702 in 1852; 3,928 in 1853; 3,401 in 1854; and 

 2,868 in 1855. 



Number of visits made to the Coin and Medal Room, 1,310 in 1854; and 1,446 in 1865. 



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

 the hours of Ten and Four, during the Months of November, December, January and February ; 

 from Ten till Five durmg the Months of September, October, March and April ; and from I'en 

 till Six from the 7tli of May to the 1st of September. 



Persons a])plying for the purposes of Study or Research are admitted to the Reading Rooms every 

 day, except on the Holidaj's as specified below, from Nine till Four in the Months of November, 

 December, January and February ; from Nine till Five in the Months of September, October, 

 March and AprU ; an d from Nine till Six in the Jlonths of May, June, July and August, with 

 the exception that on Saturdays in these latter months it closes at Five. 



Artists are admitted to study in the Galleries of Sculpture from Nine o'clock to the hour of closing, 

 every day on which the Museum is open. 



The Museum is closed from the 1st to the 7th of January, the Jst to the 7th of May, and 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,") 

 5 April 1856. / 



A. Panizsi, 



Principal Librarian. 



