22 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM. 



170 MSS. have been folioed, with a total of 32,268 folios. 696 

 sheets have been numbered. 



125 newly acquired MSS. and 336 Papyri have been placed. 

 All have been press-marked and entered in Hand- and Shelf-Lists. 



437 Charters and Rolls have been placed and have been entered 

 in the Hand-Lists. Numbers have been written on 829 newly 

 acquired Charters. 29 Seals and Casts have been provided with 

 boxes, placed, and entered in Hand- and Drawer-Lists. 



10. Books of Reference. — 119 volumes and parts have been 

 received, catalogued, and placed. 



15 volumes and parts of Facsimiles were added to the series 

 now deposited in the Department and available for the use of 

 Readers. 



11. Consultation of M^xS.— 23,332 MSS. and 2,001 Charters 

 and Seals have been consulted in the Students' Room, and 69 

 MSS. in the Reading Room. The number of Students was 7,781. 



Magna Charta was exhibited to 10,361 visitors. 



12. MSS. photographed. — 376 MSS. (including Papyri, 

 Charters, and Seals) were allowed to be photographed, with a total 

 of 3,073 photographs taken, of which 3 were for official purposes. 



13. Acquisitions. — The number of Manuscripts and Documents, 

 &c., acquired during the year has been : — 



Additional MSS. - - - - - - - 87 



Charters and Rolls __--_- 2,541 

 Detached Seals and Casts - - - - - -22 



A few of the most important accessions by gift or purchase are 

 as follows : — 



The Wodehouse Papers (calendared by the Historical MSS. 

 Commission in 1892), a collection valuable for the history of 

 Norfolk and Suffolk and of the families of Buttes, Bacon, and 

 Wodehouse. 30 volumes, 5 rolls, and 1,333 charters. Presented 

 hy Mrs. Wodehouse, widow of the late Right Hon. Edmond R. 

 Wodehouse. 



The Mackenzie Papers, 16th-19th centt., relating to the Clan 

 Mackenzie and especially the families of Suddie, Scatwell, and 

 Findon, and including military papers and diary of Gen. J. R. 

 Mackenzie, killed at Talavera. 25 volumes. 



Autograph MS. of five pages of Charles Dickens' Pickwick 

 Papers. Presented hy Lady Wernher, who purchased it at the Red 

 Cross sale. 



Autograph MSS. of "A Century of Roundels" and about twenty 

 other poems and one prose article of A. C. Swinburne. Bequeathed 

 by Miss Isabel Swinburne. 



Autograph MS. of Robert Louis Stevenson's Fables. 



J. P. Gilson. 



