ACCOUNTS, ESTIMATES, &C. OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM. 



VII. — RETURN of the Number of Persons Admitted to Visit the British Museum. 



Persons admitted to view the General Collections in each Year, from 1856 to 1861, both Years inclusive. 



January 



February 



March - 



April 



May 



June 



July 



August - 



September 



October 



November 



December 



Total Number of Persons admittedl 

 to view the General Collections > 

 (exclusive of Readers) - -J 



■^} 



Number of Visits — 



To the Reading Room, for the purpose of 

 Study »r Research - - - -, 



To the Galleries of Sculpture, for the pur-] 

 pose of Study _ - - . 



To the Print Room - - - ■ 



To the Coin and Medal Room - 



Total - 



1856. 



N" 



19,980 

 23,567 

 41,460 

 23,998 

 47,446 

 34,007 

 36,529 

 29,941 

 26,184 

 24,799 

 14,129 

 39,674 



361,714 



53,422 



2,918 



.3,096 

 2,299 



433,449 



1857. 



N" 



17,632 

 16,368 

 18,009 

 45,060 

 177,355 

 93,148 

 65,866 

 48,474 

 32,181 

 27,653 

 20,872 

 58,416 



621,034 



94,370 



2,613 



3,315 



2,316 



185 8. 



N" 



24,246 

 28,470 

 33,312 

 64,363 

 58,043 

 37,554 

 42,357 

 46,548 

 31,762 

 37,072 

 22,953 

 92,885 



723,648 



519,565 



122,103 



2,522 



8,499 

 2,002 



18 59. 



N" 



35,638 

 28,261 

 32,881 

 70,462 

 29,071 

 63,435 

 41,861 

 50,310 

 31,118 

 38,582 

 27,092 

 69,184 



18 60. 



N° 



30,018 

 20,995 

 33,995 

 65,982 

 57,364 

 50,218 

 50,955 

 61,626 

 33,846 

 46,635 

 29,506 



6er,809 



649,691 



617,895 



122,424 



2,364 



3,013 

 2,204 



647,900 



536,939 



127,763 



2,710 



3,197 



2,065 



672,674 



186 1. 



N» 



28,667 

 32,183 

 33,378 

 83,436 

 69,993 

 46,068 

 69,361 

 68,205 

 41,671 

 49,578 

 39,351 

 79,995 



641,886 



130,410 



2,030 



3,109 

 1,817 



779,252 



Jfem. — 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 during 

 the Months of March, April, September, and October. 



Persons applying for the purposes of Study or Research are admitted to the Reading Room, under certain regu- 

 lations, every day, except on the Holidays specified below,'from Nine till Four in the Montlis of November, 

 December, January and February ; from Nine till Five during the remaining months of the present year. 



Artists are admitted, under similar regulations, to study in the Galleries of Sculpture. 



The Museum closes from the 1st to the 7th of January, the 28th April to 3d May of this year, and the 1st to 

 the 7th of September inclusive, on Ash Wednesday, Good Friday and Cliristmas-day, and also on any Special 

 Fast or Thanksgiving Days ordered by Authority. 



Special Regulations for the Months of May, June, July, and August of the present Year. 



1. The Museum will be closed on Monday, the 28th of April, and re-opened on the following Monday, the 5th of May. 



2. From the 5th of May to the 30th of August inclusive, the Reading Room will be kept open for readers, as usual, 

 daily, Sundays only excepted, but not later than five o'clock. 



3. The Museum Collections, including those parts of the Library of Printed Books and Manuscripts, to which visitors 

 are now admitted on public days, will be kept mpen daily, Thursdays and Sundays excepted, from ten o'clock in the 

 morning till eight in the evening, during the monuis of May, June, July, and to the 16th of August, inclusive, but till 

 half-past seven only for the remainder of that month. 



4. During the same months and days the Reading Room and a small portion of the Libraries annexed to it, as well 

 as the whole of the North Library, with the exception of its western extremity, will be open for the admission of the 

 public generally, only from five o'clock to eight, or half-past seven, as before mentioned ; and from nine to five o'clock 

 none but readers, for the purpose of study, will be admitted to the Reading Room, or to any of the Libraries, except 

 such of the rooms as are usually accessible' to visitors throughout the year on public days. 



5. After five o'clock the Reading Room and the Libraries generally are not to be used for the purposes of study. 



6. Thursdays will be reserved for cleaning the several departments, and no visitors, excepting- readers, will be 

 admitted into the Museum on that day. 



British Museum, ") 

 24 March 1862. / 



A. Panizzi, 



Principal Librarian. 



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