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 ″ (on MONDAYS and SATURDAYS, from the beginning of May to the middle of July, to 8 P.M., and from the middle of July to the end of August, to 7 P.M.); 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 [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._