ACCOUNTS, &C., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM. 



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



The Exhibition Galleries of the British Museum, Eloomsbury (incluilino; the Departments of Printed Hooks and 

 Maps, Manuscripts, Prints and Drawings, ligj'ptian and Assyrian Antiquities, Greek and Roman Antiquities, British 

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

 Monday and Saturday — The whole of liie Galleries. 



Tdesday and Thursday — 'J'he whole of the Galleries, except British and Mediajval Antiquities and Ethno- 

 graphy. 

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

 Upper Floor. 



The hours of Admission are from — 



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

 10 ,, o ,, March, September, October. 

 10 ,, G ,, April, May, June, July, August. 



]0 ,, 8 „ on Monday and Saturday only, from Blay 1st to the middle of July. 

 10 ,, 7 ., Mondaj' iuui 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. 

 Persims applying for the purpose of study or research are admitted to tlie Reading Room under certain regulations 

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

 Novemlier, and December, from Nine a.m. till Eiglit p.m. ; and in the months of May, June, July, and August, from 

 Nine till Seven. 



The Heading Room is closed on Sundays, 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 tili Four o'clock, from January to March, and from August to 

 December ; and from Ten till Five, from April to July. 



British Museum, 1 Edwui-d A. Bond, 



31 May ]8y7. / Principal Librarian. 



B. — Persons Admitted to view the Collections in the British Museum (Natural History), Cromwell-road, 

 in each Year from the date of opening (18th April 1881) to 1886, inclusive. 



Number of Visits to particular Departments, for the 

 purpose of Study — 

 Zoology - - - 



Geology - - - - 

 Mineralogy - - - 

 Botany - - - - 



New Building 



in the 

 Cromwell- road. 



Total - 





1881 : 



1882: 



1883: 



1884: 



1885: 



1886: 



January - - - - - 



- 



23,234 



19,164 



80,516 



31,093 



27,253 



February- - . . - 



- 



17,622 



15,034 



22,628 



24,200 



23,916 



March - . - - - 

 April . . - - - 



(April 18 to 30) 

 41,434 



27,923 

 37,130 



35,257 

 16,761 



24,121 

 51,952 



28,339 

 62,548 



27,849 

 40,080 



May • 



22,871 



83,829 



83,797 



24,359 



46,295 



31,416 



June - . . - - 



25,867 



20,461 



18,-507 



39,740 



29,036 



35,301 



July ----- 



13,98(5 



20,395 



16, .509 



28,444 



29,374 



31,331 



August - - - - - 



27,970 



29,182 



25,298 



35,080 



45,134 



52,525 



September - - - - 



23,950 



19,564 



17,188 



31,131 



34,977 



3-3,540 



October - - - - - 



23,044 



15,217 



30,827 



31,355 



35,392 



33,122 



November . - - - 



17,94-. 



10,469 



25,502 



24,453 



23,878 



22,936 



December - - - - - 



34,217 



23.101 



2;\487 



31,452 



31,084 



21,473 



Total Number of Persons 















lidmitted to view the 

 Natural History Collec- ( 

 tions (including Students) | 



231,284 



278,027 



277,331 



375,231 



421,350 



882,742 



rthe 



1882: 



1883: 



1884: 



1885: 



1886; 



( 



- 



5,229* 



6,818 



8,313 



8,872 





1,209 



2,453 



1,991 



1,9-59 



2,466 



(, 



697 



617 



651 



626 



761 





803 



1,023 



993 



1,105 



1,026 



- - 



2,709 



9,322 



10,453 



12,005 



12,625 



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



The Exliibition Galleries of the British Museum (Natural History), Cromwell-road, South Kensington, including the 

 Departments of Zoology, Geology and Paleontology, 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, November, December. 



10 „ 4.30. p.m. in Feliruary. 



10 „ 5 „ October. 



10 „ 5 30. March, September. 



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



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



]0 7 „ Monday and Saturday only, from the middle of July to the end of August. 



Pirsons are admitted daily to study in these Departments from Ten till Four o'clock. 



British Museum (Natural History), "I ^V. H. Flower, 



31 May 18B7. / 



Director. 



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