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



VI. — Number of Persons Admitted to Visit the British Museum, &c. — continued. 



B. — Persons Admitted to view the Collections in the British Museum (Natural Histoey), in each 

 Year from the date of opening (18th April 1881) to 1883, inclusive. 





1881 : 



1882: 



1883: 



January - - - - _ 



- 



23,234 



19,164 



February - - - - - 



- 



17,622 



15,034 



March ------ 



. 



27,923 



86,257 



April 18 to 30 - - - - 



41,434 



37,130 



16,761 



May - - - - • - 



22,871 



33,829 



33,797 



June ------ 



25,867 



20,461 



18,507 



July ------ 



13,986 



20,395 



16,609 



August ------ 



27,970 



29,182 



25,298 



September - - . - - 



23,950 



19,664 



17,188 



October- ----- 



23,044 



15,217 



30,827 



November - - - - . 



17,945 



10,469 



25,502 



December - . - - - 



34,217 



28,101 



23,487 



Total - - - 



231,284 



278,027 



277,331 



Number of Visits to the Department of — 



Zoology for the purpose of Study - 

 Geology „ „ 



Mineralogy „ „ 



Botany „ „ 





1882: 



1883: 



/ 



- . - 



5,229* 



New Building 



1,209 



2,463 



in the ( 



697 



617 



Cromwell-road. 







'' 



803 



1,023 



Total - - - 



2,709 



9,322 



I 



* Considerably under usual number, owing to the closing of the department during the removal of the Zoological Collections. 



The Exhibition Galleries of the British Museum, Bloomsbury (including the Departments of Printed Books and 

 Maps, Manuscripts, Prints and Drawings, Egyptian and Assyrian Antiquities, Greek and Roman Antiquities, British 

 and Mediaeval Antiquities and Ethnography, and Coins and Medals) are Open to the Public, Free, as under : — 



Monday and Saturday — The whole of the Galleries. 



Tuesday and Thursday — The whole of the Galleries, except British and Medifeval Antiquities and Ethno- 

 graphy. 



Wednesday and Friday — The whole of the Galleries, except the Western Gallery of Antiquities on the 

 Upper Floor, and the Rooms of Greek and Roman Antiquities on the Ground Floor and Basement. 



The hours of Admission are from — 



10 a.m. till 4 p.m. in January, February, November, December. 



10 ,, 6 ,, March, April, September, October. 



10 ,, 6 ,, May, June, July, August. 



10 „ 8 „ Monday and Saturday only, from May 1st to the middle of July. 



10 „ 7 „ on Monday and Saturday only, from the middle of July to the end of August. 



The Galleries are closed on Sundays, Good-Friday, Christmas-day, and days of Public Fast or Thanksgiving. 



Persons applying for the purpose of study or researcli are admitted to the Reading Room under certain regulations 

 every day, except the days specified below, in the months of January, February, March, April, September, October, 

 November, and December, from Nine a.m. till Eight p.m. ; and in the mouths of May, June, July, and August, from 

 Nine till Seven. 



The Reading Room is closed on Sunday, Good-Friday, Christmas-day, and the first four week-days of March and 

 October. 



Persons are admitted every week-day to study in the Sculpture Galleries from Nine o'clock to the hour of 

 general closing ; and in the Print Room from Ten till Four o'clock, January to March, and August to December ; 

 Ten till Five, April to July. 



Exhibition Galleries of the British Museum (Natural History), Ciom well-road, South Kensington, including the 

 Departments of Zoology, Geology, and Palaeontology, Mineralogy, and Botany, are open to the Public, free, every day of 

 the week, except Sunday, and except Good-Friday and Christmas-day, and days of Public Fast or Thanksgiving. 



The hours of Admission are from — 



10 a.m. till 4 p.m. in January, February, November, December. 

 10 „ 5 ,, March, April, September, October. 

 10 „ 6 ,, May, June, July, August. 



Persons are admitted daily to study in these Departments from Nine o'clock to the ordinary hour of closing. 



British Museum,^ Edward A. Bond, 



ilO May 1884. / Principal Librarian. 



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