Chapter VII: Part II: Nesting Series of British Birds. 2nd Edition. 4 Plates

1909, 4to. 4_d._

Guide to the Gallery of Reptilia and Amphibia. 2nd Edition.
Illustrated by 76 text and other Figures. 1913, 8vo. 1_s._

Guide to the Gallery of Fishes. 96 Illustrations. 1908, 8vo. 1_s._

Guide to the British Vertebrates. 26 Text-figures, 1 Plan. 1910, 8vo.
1_s._

Guide to the Exhibited Series of Insects. 2nd Edition. 62
Illustrations. 1909, 8vo. 1_s._

Guide to the Crustacea, Arachnida, Onychophora, and Myriopoda. 90
Text-figures. 1910, 8vo. 1_s._

Guide to the Shell and Starfish Galleries (Mollusca, Polyzoa,
Brachiopoda, Tunicata, Echinoderma, and Worms). 5th Edition. 125
Woodcuts and 1 Plan. 1908, 8vo. 6_d._

Guide to the Coral Gallery (Protozoa, Porifera or Sponges, Hydrozoa,
and Anthozoa). 2nd Edition. 90 Illustrations and 1 Plan. 1907, 8vo.
1_s._

GEOLOGICAL DEPARTMENT.

A Guide to the Fossil Mammals and Birds. 9th Edition. 6 Plates and 88
Text-figures. 1909, 8vo. 6_d._

A Guide to the Fossil Reptiles, Amphibians, and Fishes. 9th Edition. 8
Plates and 116 Text-figures. 1910, 8vo. 9_d._

A Guide to the Fossil Invertebrate Animals. 2nd Edition. 7 Plates and
96 Text-figures. 1911, 8vo. 1_s._

Guide to the Elephants (Recent and Fossil). 31 Illustrations. 1908,
8vo. 6_d._

MINERAL DEPARTMENT.

A Guide to the Mineral Gallery. 11th Edition. With Plan. 1911, 8vo.
1_d._

The Student’s Index to the Collection of Minerals. 24th Edition. Plan.
1911, 8vo. 2_d._

An Introduction to the Study of Minerals, with a Guide to the Mineral
Gallery. 13th Edition. 41 Woodcuts and Plan. 1910, 8vo. 6_d._

An Introduction to the Study of Rocks and Guide to the Museum
Collection. 4th Edition. With Plan. 1909, 8vo. 1_s._

An Introduction to the Study of Meteorites, with a List of the
Meteorites represented in the Collection. 10th Edition. With Plan.
1908, 8vo. 6_d._

BOTANICAL DEPARTMENT.

List of British Seed-plants and Ferns exhibited in the Department of
Botany. 1913, 8vo. 4_d._

Guide to Sowerby’s Models of British Fungi. By W. G. Smith. 3rd
Edition. 91 Woodcuts. 1908, 8vo. 4_d._

Guide[31] to Drawings of Field and Cultivated Mushrooms, and Poisonous
or Worthless Fungi, often mistaken for Mushrooms. 2 Plates,
containing 28 coloured figures; 4 Text-figures. 1910, 8vo. 1_s._

Guide to the British Mycetozoa. By Arthur Lister. 3rd Edition. 46
Woodcuts. 1909, 8vo. 3_d._

Books and Portraits illustrating the History of Plant Classification
exhibited in the Department of Botany. 2nd Edition. 4 Plates. 1909,
8vo. 4_d._ (_Special Guide Series, No. 2._)

SPECIAL GUIDES.

No. 4.--Memorials of Darwin: a collection of Manuscripts, Portraits,
Medals, Books, and Natural History Specimens to commemorate the
Centenary of his Birth. 2nd Edition. 2 Plates. 1910, 8vo. 6_d._

No. 5.--Exhibition of Animals, Plants, and Minerals mentioned in the
Bible. 2nd Edition. 7 Text-figures. 1911, 8vo. 6_d._

HINTS FOR COLLECTORS.

Handbook of Instructions for Collectors. With Illustrations. Third
Edition. 1906, 8vo. 1_s._ 6_d._

Instructions for Collectors:--

No. 1.--Mammals. 4th Edition. Text illustrated. 1912, 8vo. 3_d._

No. 2.--Birds and their Eggs. 5th Edition. 6 Figures in text.
1912, 8vo. 3_d._

No. 3.--Reptiles, Batrachians, and Fishes. 3rd Edition. 1903, 8vo.
4_d._

No. 4.--Insects. 5th Edition. Text illust. 1911, 8vo. 3_d._

No. 5.--Diptera (Two-winged Flies). 3rd Edition. Text illust.
1908, 8vo. 3_d._

No. 6.--Mosquitoes (_Culicidæ_). 3rd Edition. 1 Plate, 1 Figure in
text. 1904, 8vo. 3_d._

No. 7.--Blood-sucking Flies, Ticks, etc. 3rd Edition. 13 Figures
in text. 1907, 8vo. 3_d._

No. 8.--Spiders, Centipedes, etc. 2nd Edition. 1906, 8vo. 3_d._

No. 9.--Soft-bodied Invertebrate Animals; Shells of Molluscs. 3rd
Edition. 1909, 8vo. 3_d._

No. 10.--Plants. 4th Edition. 3 Figures in text. 1909, 8vo. 3_d._

No. 11.--Fossils and Minerals. 3rd Edition. 1906, 8vo. 3_d._

ECONOMIC SERIES.

No. 1.--The House-Fly as a danger to health. Its Life-history, and
how to deal with it. By E. E. Austen. 2 Plates (4 figures), and 3
text-figures. 1913, 8vo. 1_d._

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NUMBER OF VISITORS TO THE MUSEUM FROM THE DATE OF OPENING (18TH APRIL, 1881).

1881 231,284
1882 278,027
1883 277,331
1884 375,231
1885 421,350
1886 382,742
1887 358,178
1888 372,802
1889 361,046
1890 355,682
1891 375,906
1892 351,917
1893 408,208
1894 413,572
1895 446,737
1896 453,956
1897 422,607
1898 419,004
1899 422,290
1900 485,288
1901 417,691
1902 433,619
1903 486,733
1904 470,557
1905 566,313
1906 472,557
1907 497,437
1908 517,043
1909 535,116
1910 515,562
1911 435,684
1912 455,613

NUMBER OF VISITS TO PARTICULAR DEPARTMENTS FOR THE PURPOSE OF STUDY.

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Zoology. Geology. Mineralogy. Botany.
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1883 5,229 2,453 617 1,023
1884 6,818 1,991 651 993
1885 8,313 1,959 626 1,105
1886 8,372 2,466 761 1,026
1887 8,955 3,290 620 1,483
1888 8,797 3,111 733 2,214
1889 8,360 3,339 683 1,344
1890 9,034 3,771 623 1,244
1891 9,443 2,961 946 2,226
1892 10,932 4,107 1,751 2,585
1893 10,872 4,955 1,714 2,274
1894 10,730 5,176 1,994 2,129
1895 8,189 5,986 2,073 2,206
1896 7,995 5,953 1,841 2,555
1897 9,708 4,889 1,248 2,718
1898 10,830 5,234 1,173 2,940
1899 10,728 4,479 1,264 2,649
1900 11,923 4,447 1,314 2,380
1901 12,813 4,573 1,295 2,392
1902 10,633 4,135 1,366 2,068
1903 11,627 4,601 1,541 2,108
1904 11,824 4,854 909 2,358
1905 11,811 4,968 994 1,939
1906 10,813 4,171 867 2,065
1907 11,043 5,544 855 2,245
1908 10,220 5,803 987 2,315
1909 11,461 5,057 838 2,712
1910 12,443 4,996 850 3,009
1911 12,175 6,038 682 3,084
1912 12,564 5,974 1,415 3,962

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FOOTNOTES

[1] The Trustees under the Act of Incorporation were the Archbishop of Canterbury, the Lord Chancellor, the Speaker of the House of Commons, the Bishop of London, and the principal Officers of State for the time being; six representatives of Founders’ families; the Presidents of the Royal Society and College of Physicians; and fifteen other Trustees to be elected by them. Subsequently, the Presidents of the Society of Antiquaries and of the Royal Academy of Arts, a Trustee by special nomination of the Sovereign, and three more family Trustees were added to the Board.

[2] In judging the appearance of the exterior of the building, it should be remembered that these fronts are required to complete the design, as the externally unsightly brick galleries which run back from the main front, and are now conspicuous when the Museum is seen from either west or east, are intended to be concealed by them (_see Frontispiece_).

[3] Palæontology, or the study of fossil animals and plants, would have been a more appropriate designation, as Geology, the science which investigates the history of the earth, and the changes which its surface has undergone in attaining its present condition, has a much wider scope.

[4] For conditions as to admission and regulation, see p. 119.

[5] In the _homœodont_ type the teeth are alike, in the _heterodont_ they are divided into groups.

[6] See Special Guide, price 6_d._

[7] See Special Guide, price 1_s._

[8] See Special Guides, price respectively 2_s._ 6_d._, 6_d._, 4_d._

[9] See Special Guide, price 1_s._

[10] See Special Guide, price 1_s._

[11] See Special Guide, price 1_s._

[12] See Special Guide, price 1_s._

[13] See Special Guide, price 6_d._

[14] See Special Guide, price 6_d._

[15] See Special Guide, price 6_d._

[16] “Guide to the Whales, Porpoises, and Dolphins exhibited in the Department of Zoology.” Price 4_d._

[17] “Guide to the Galleries of Mammals,” (6_d._); “Guide to Great Game Animals (Ungulata),” (1_s._); and “Guide to the Horse Family,” (1_s._).

[18] See “Guide to the Specimens Illustrating the Races of Mankind (Anthropology).” Price 4_d._

[19] “Guide to the Fossil Mammals and Birds,” price 6_d._; “Guide to the Fossil Reptiles, Amphibians, and Fishes,” price 9_d._; and “Guide to the Fossil Invertebrate Animals,” price 1_s._

[20] See “Guide to the Elephants (Recent and Fossil).” Price 6_d._

[21] “Guide to the Mineral Gallery.” Price 1_d._ “Introduction to the Study of Minerals, with a Guide to the Mineral Gallery.” Price 6_d._

[22] “Introduction to the Study of Rocks and Guide to the Museum Collection.” Price 1_s._

[23] “The Student’s Index to the Collection of Minerals.” Price 2_d._

[24] Catalogue of a series of specimens illustrative of the more common forms of Native Silica. By John Ruskin, F.G.S., 1884. Price 1_s._

[25] See “An Introduction to the Study of Meteorites, with a List of the Meteorites represented in the Collection.” Price 6_d._

[26] “Books and portraits illustrating the History of Plant Classification exhibited in the Department of Botany.” Price 4_d._

[27] “Guide to Sowerby’s Models of British Fungi.” Price 4_d._

[28] “Guide to the British Mycetozoa.” Price 3_d._

[29] A “List of British Seed-plants and Ferns” has been drawn up in the form of a Guide. Price 4_d._

[30] “Guide to Mr. Worthington Smith’s Drawings of Field and Cultivated Mushrooms and Poisonous or Worthless Fungi, often mistaken for Mushrooms.” With reduced reproduction of the drawings. Price 1_s._

[31] NOTE.--The plates may be had separately in one sheet mounted on linen and varnished. Price 1_s._, or 1_s._ 2_d._ post free.

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