HC Deb 25 February 1914 vol 58 c1737
Sir W. ANSON

I beg to present a Petition from the Trustees of the British Museum asking for a grant of public money to enable them to discharge their statutory duties.

Accounts ordered "of the Income and Expenditure of the British Museum (Special Trust Funds) for the year ending the 31st day of March, 1914, and Return of the number of persons admitted to visit the Museum and the British Museum (Natural History) in each year from 1908 to 1913, both years inclusive, together with a statement of the progress made in the arrangement and description of the collections and an account of the objects added to them in the year 1913."—[Sir W. Anson.]