62 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM. 



Catalogue o£ Moths, Supplement, Vol. ii., by Sir George F. 

 Hampson, Bart. 



Flora of Jamaica, Vol. iv., by W. Fawcett and Dr. A. B. 

 Rendle, f.r.s. 



Revision o£ Crombie's Monograph of British Lichens, Part I., 

 by Miss A. L. Smith. 



Catalogue of the Sloane Herbarium, by J. Britten. 



Catalogue of Fossil Fishes, Part V., by Dr. A. S. Wood- 

 ward, F.R.S. 



Guide to British Lichens. 



Economic Series, No. 3. Fleas as a Menace to Man and 

 Animals, by Rev. J. Waterston. 



Economic Series, No. 4. Mosquitoes, by F. W. Edwards. 



General Library. 



The additions to the General Library during the past year have 

 been : — 



By purchase - - - 356 volumes. 



By transference from other 



Departments - - - 5 volumes. 



By donation _ _ _ 840 volumes, 12 maps, and 21 



photographs. 



Total - - 1,201 volumes, 12 maps, and 21 

 photographs. 



All the volumes and maps have been catalogued, press-marked 

 and put in their places, whilst 1,428 volumes have been bound in 

 617, and 6 have been repaired. 



The extent of the collection on the 31st of December was 

 44, 963 volumes, .5,928 maps, and 864 photographs (not including 

 those in the Owen Collection of Drawings, &c.). 



The accessions to the Departmental Libraries have also been 

 catalogued as they came in, and duplicate transcripts of the titles 

 have been returned with the books. 



Altogether 2,923 title-slips have been written, 81 rewritten, 

 and 3,184 revised (independently of those prepared for printing). 



There are now, on a rough estimate, 100,459 volumes (exclusive 

 of continuations and minor separata) and 6,235 maps in the whole 

 building. 



The number of visits paid to the General Library during the 

 year by Students and others (irrespective of the Staff and persons 

 to whom the use of a key is granted) was 1,804. 



Donations have been received from a great number of Museums, 

 Academies and other corporate bodies, as well as from personal 

 donors. Included is a set of the works and memoirs of the late 

 Sir Richard Owen, K.C.B., being his personal copies and containing 

 his autograph notes, drawings and other memoranda, presented by 

 his daughter-in-law, Mrs. Emily Owen. These have been placed ini 



