Annual Reports 1878

THE EIGHTH AND NINTH AN NUAL REPORTS OF TIHE jmltrian Oum of atural fistor JANUARY 1ST, 4878 tw t I) THIE MUSEUM FJnFOR ' L I NE MDCCCLXXVIII + The following is the number of visitors to the Museum, recorded by the turnstile: For week ending September i8th, i875, sssss se s " " " October 2d, " - ~25sth, 17,082 13,327 15,204 17,778 ssss s " " " I6th, " ~23d2 *i " 30th, November 6th, i3th, " ' 13,385 I8,328 14,936 For week ending November 20th, i875, " "' " " 27th, " "" " December 4th, i ith, " i 8th 25th, " " January Ist, i876, - 1,0oi - I 8,030 9,413 - 9,125 - Io,605 - 7,425 17,545 - I8,904 12,525 Number of Visitors to the British Museum in 1874, Average per week, - Total for i6 weeks, Average per week, 60I,842 II,574 217,245 - 13,577 The average attendance as indicated above, is 2,000 persons per week more than visit the latural History, Antiquarian, and all other exhibition halls of the British Museum, and shows that the collections already in their present temporary quarters, attract more people than visit any other similar Institution in the world NEw YORK, January 5th, 1876 ALBERT S BICKMORE, Superintendent THE EIGHTH AND NINTH AN NUAL REPO RTS OF THE m etrsan m Itst878 1AN UaAiYt1S JAN UARY IST, 1878 ti th PRnINXTE:D FOR TIHE MUS:EUJM MDCCCLXXVIII lrnqtee ROBERT L STUART J PIERPONT MORGAN WILLIAM A HAINES JOSEPH H CHOATE THEODORE ROOSEVELT PERCY R PYNE HOWARD POTTER JOHN B TREVOR ROBERT COLGATE ANDREW H GREEN BENJAMIN H FIELD WM E DODGE, JR ADRIAN ISELIN JOSEPH W DREXEL JAMES M CONSTABLE FREDERICK W STEVENS MORRIS K JESUP ABRAM S HEWITT D JACKSON STEWARD CHARLES LANIER HUGH AUCHINCLOSS ROBERT L STUART WILLIAM A HAINES THEO ROOSEVELT jiecEetarg D JACKSON STEWARD IgrgasuqKl J PIERPONT MORGAN &xcutive Oommittem WILLIAM A HAINES THEODORE ROOSEVELT ANDREW H GREEN MORRIS K JESUP WM E DODGE, JR 4inante