ACCOUNTS, &C., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM. 



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



The Exhibition Galleries of the Britisli Museum, Bloomsbury (including the Departments of Frinted Books and 

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

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



Monday, Wednesday, Friday, and Saturday — The whole of the Galleries. 



Tuesday and Thursday — 'JMie whole of the Galleries, except British and Mediajval Antiquities and Ethno- 

 graphy, and rooms in the " White " Wing. 



Tiic hours of Admission are from — 



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



10 ,, ^ „ March, September, October. 



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



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



10 ,, 7 ., 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 reseai'ch are admitted to the Reading Room under certain regulations 

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

 Novemlicr, 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 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 till Four o'clock, from January to March, and from August to 

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



British Museum,') Edward A. Bond, 



31 May 1888. / Principal Librarian. 



B. — Peksons Admitted to View the Collections in the Bkitish Museum (Natural 

 History\ Cromavell-road, in each Year from 1882 to 1887, inclusive. 





1882: 



1883 : 



1884: 



1885: 



1886: 



1887: 



January - - - - - 



23,234 



19,164 



80,616 



31,093 



27,25.3 



24,529 



February- - - - - 



17,522 



15,034 



22,628 



24,200 



23,916 



21,560 



March - - - - - 



27,923 



35,257 



24,121 



28,339 



27,849 



27,431 



April . . - - - 



37,130 



16,761 



61,952 



62,548 



40,080 



40,207 



May - 



30,829 



33,797 



24,359 



46,295 



31,416 



36,1-26 



June . . - . - 



20,4G1 



18,507 



.39,740 



29,036 



35,301 



27,742 



July - . . - . 



20,395 



1 6,-509 



28,444 



29,374 



31,331 



27,114 



August . - - - - 



2i),182 



25,298 



35,080 



45,134 



62,525 



36,584 



September . - - - 



19,504 



17,188 



31,131 



34,977 



35,540 



29,817 



October - - - - - 



15,217 



30,827 



31,355 



35,392 



33,122 



29,424 



November . - - - 



10,469 



25,502 



24,453 



23.878 



22,936 



2.3,170 



December - - - - - 



23,101 



23,487 



31,452 



31,084 



21,473 



34,474 



Total Number of Persons^ 















admitted to view the 



278,027 



277,331 



375,231 



421,350 



882,742 



358,178 



Natural History Collec- 

 tions (including Students) 



























Number ofVisits to particular Departments, 

 for the purpose of Study — 

 Zoology - 

 Geology - 

 Mineralogy 



Botany 



New Building 



in the 

 Cromwell-road. 



Total 



lents 



: 



1882: 



1883: 



1884: 



1885: 



1886; 



1887: 





/ 



- 



5,229* 



6,818 



8,313 



8,372 



8,955 







1,209 



2,463 



1,991 



] ,959 



2,466 



3,290 



( 



697 



617 



651 



626 



761 



620 





803 



1,023 



993 



1,105 



1,026 



1,483 



- - 





2,709 



9,322 



10,453 



12,003 



12,625 



14,348 



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



The Exhibition 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 February. 



10 „ 5 ,, Octolier. 



10 „ 5.30 „ March, September. 



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



10 „ 8 „ on Monday and Saturday only, from ls:t May to the middle of July. 



10 „ 7 „ Mondav and Saturday onl}', from the middle of July to the end of August. 



Persons are admitted daily to study iii these Departments from Ten till Four o'clock. 



British Museum (Natural History), l^ 

 29 February 1888. / 



>F. H. Flower, 



Director. 



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