Part I. General Series. 1905, 4to. 6_d._

Part II. Nesting Series of British Birds. 2nd Edition. 4 Plates. 1909, 4to. 4d.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

GEOLOGICAL DEPARTMENT.

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

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

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

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

MINERAL DEPARTMENT.

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

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

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

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

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

BOTANICAL DEPARTMENT.

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

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

Guide 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. 1s.

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

Books and Portraits illustrating the History of Plant Classification exhibited in the Department of Botany. 2nd Edition. 4 Plates. 1909, 8vo. 4d. (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. 6d.

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

HINTS FOR COLLECTORS.

Handbook of Instructions for Collectors. With Illustrations. Third Edition. 1906, 8vo. 1s. 6d.

Instructions for Collectors:--

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

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

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

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

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

No. 6.--Mosquitoes (Culicidæ). 3rd Edition. 1 Plate, 1 Figure in text. 1904, 8vo. 3d.

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

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

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

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

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

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. 1d.

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REGULATIONS FOR THE ADMISSION OF STUDENTS.

1. The Exhibition Galleries are open free daily except on Good Friday, Christmas Day, and any Fast or Thanksgiving Day appointed by authority. (For hours of admission see back of cover.)

2. The hours for the Study Collections are, throughout the year, from ten till four o’clock every day in the week, except Sunday.

3. Persons desiring special facilities for study or drawing in the Exhibition Galleries, or admission to the Study Collections, must apply in writing to the Director of the Museum for a Student’s ticket, specifying the profession or business, and place of abode of the applicant, and the Department of the Museum (viz., Zoology, Entomology, Geology, Mineralogy, or Botany) to which admission is required.

4. Every such application must be made two days, at least, before admission is required, and must be accompanied by a written recommendation from a householder (whose address can be identified from the ordinary sources of reference), or a person of known position, with full signature and address, stated to be given on personal knowledge of the applicant, and certifying that he or she will make proper use of the department of Natural History to which such admission is required.

5. If such application or recommendation be unsatisfactory, the Director will either refuse admission, or submit the case to the Trustees for their decision.

6. Tickets of Admission must be produced if required, and are not transferable.

7. The privilege of admission is granted upon the following conditions:--

(a) That it may be at any time suspended by the Director.

(b) That it may be at any time withdrawn by the Trustees in their absolute discretion.

8. All communications respecting the Departments of Natural History should be addressed to--

THE DIRECTOR,

BRITISH MUSEUM (NATURAL HISTORY),

CROMWELL ROAD,

LONDON, S.W.

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.

------------------------------------------------ Zoology. Geology. Mineralogy. Botany. ------------------------------------------------ 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

L. FLETCHER, Director.

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DAYS AND HOURS OF ADMISSION.

The Exhibition Galleries are open to the Public, free daily--

on WEEK-DAYS, throughout the year from 10 A.M., in

January to 4 P.M. February 1 to 14 ″ 4.30 ″ ″ 15 to end ″ 5 ″ March ″ 5.30 ″ April to August (inclusive) ″ 6 ″ September ″ 5.30 ″ October ″ 5 ″ November and December ″ 4 ″

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on SUNDAYS, in

January from 2 to 4 P.M. February 1 to 14 ″ 2 ″ 4.30 ″ ″ 15 to end ″ 2 ″ 5 ″ March ″ 2 ″ 5.30 ″ April ″ 2 ″ 6 ″ May to August (inclusive) ″ 2.30 ″ 7 ″ September ″ 2 ″ 5.30 ″ October ″ 2 ″ 5 ″ November and December ″ 2 ″ 4 ″

The Museum is closed on Good Friday and Christmas Day.

By Order of the Trustees,

L. FLETCHER,

Director.

FOOTNOTES

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.

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).

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.

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

In the homœodont type the teeth are alike, in the heterodont they are divided into groups.

See Special Guide, price 6d.

See Special Guide, price 1s.

See Special Guides, price respectively 2s. 6d., 6d., 4d.

See Special Guide, price 1s.

See Special Guide, price 1s.

See Special Guide, price 1s.

See Special Guide, price 1s.

See Special Guide, price 6d.

See Special Guide, price 6d.

See Special Guide, price 6d.

“Guide to the Whales, Porpoises, and Dolphins exhibited in the Department of Zoology.” Price 4d.

“Guide to the Galleries of Mammals,” (6d.); “Guide to Great Game Animals (Ungulata),” (1s.); and “Guide to the Horse Family,” (1s.).

See “Guide to the Specimens Illustrating the Races of Mankind (Anthropology).” Price 4d.

“Guide to the Fossil Mammals and Birds,” price 6d.; “Guide to the Fossil Reptiles, Amphibians, and Fishes,” price 9d.; and “Guide to the Fossil Invertebrate Animals,” price 1s.

See “Guide to the Elephants (Recent and Fossil).” Price 6d.

“Guide to the Mineral Gallery.” Price 1d. “Introduction to the Study of Minerals, with a Guide to the Mineral Gallery.” Price 6d.

“Introduction to the Study of Rocks and Guide to the Museum Collection.” Price 1s.

“The Student’s Index to the Collection of Minerals.” Price 2d.

Catalogue of a series of specimens illustrative of the more common forms of Native Silica. By John Ruskin, F.G.S., 1884. Price 1s.

See “An Introduction to the Study of Meteorites, with a List of the Meteorites represented in the Collection.” Price 6d.

“Books and portraits illustrating the History of Plant Classification exhibited in the Department of Botany.” Price 4d.

“Guide to Sowerby’s Models of British Fungi.” Price 4d.

“Guide to the British Mycetozoa.” Price 3d.

A “List of British Seed-plants and Ferns” has been drawn up in the form of a Guide. Price 4d.

“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 1s.

NOTE.--The plates may be had separately in one sheet mounted on linen and varnished. Price 1s., or 1s. 2d. post free.

Transcriber’s Notes

Punctuation and spelling were made consistent when a predominant preference was found in this book; otherwise they were not changed.

Simple typographical errors were corrected; occasional unbalanced quotation marks retained.

Ambiguous hyphens at the ends of lines were retained; occurrences of inconsistent hyphenation have not been changed.

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