BRITISH MUSEUM. 



RETURN to an Order of the Honourable The House of Commons, 

 dated 26 March 1 863 i—for, 



AN ACCOUNT " of the Income. and Expenditure of the British Museum 

 for the Financial Year ended the 31st day of March 1863 ; of the Estimated 

 Charges and Expenses for the Year ending the 31st day of March 1864; 

 of the Sum necessary to discharge the same ; and of the Number of 

 Persons admitted to visit the Museum in each Year from 1857 to 1862, 

 both Years inclusive ; together with a Statement of the Progress made in 

 the Arrangement of the Collections, and an Account of Objects added 

 to them, in the Year 1862." 



I. — GENERAL ACCOUNT of Income and Expenditure for the Financial Year ended 

 31 March 1863. 



II,— ACCOUNT OF BRIDGEWATER FUND, for the same Period. 

 III.— ACCOUNT OF FARNBOROUGH FUND, for the same Period. 

 IV.— ACCOUNT OF SWINEY FUND, for the same Period. 



v.— ACCOUNT OF THE BIRCH FUND, for the same Period. 



VI ESTIMATED EXPENDITURE for the Year ending 31 March 1864, and of GRANT 



required, compared with the SUMS Granted for the Year ended 31 March 1863. 



VII. — RETURN of the Number of Persons admitted to visit the British Museum in 

 each Year from 1857 to 1862, both Years inclusive. 



VIII. — STATEMENT of Progress made in the Arrangement of the Collections, and an 

 Account of Objects added to them, in the Year 1862. 



(Mr. Walpole.) 



Ordered, hy The House of Commons, to he Printed, 

 14 April 1863. 



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