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•"sThe collection of books in the galleries of the Reading 

 Room has continued to receive additions by the incorporation 

 of new works of interest and importance, and the substitution 

 of new for older editions. The number of additions to each 

 of the two interleaved copies of the Catalogue of this collec- 

 tion has been 149. 



III. Binding. — The number of volumes and sets of 

 pamphlets sent to be bound in the course of the year has been 

 11,939, including 2,462 volumes of newspapers. In conse- 

 quence of the frequent adoption of the plan of binding two or 

 more volumes in one, the number of volumes returned 

 has been 7,926 ; in addition to which 226 pamphlets have been 

 separately bound, and 277 volumes have been repaired at the 

 binder's. 



Besides this, the following binding work has been 

 done in the Library itself : — 4,603 volumes have been 

 repaired ; 2,162 broadsides, &c., have been inserted in guard- 

 books, and 3,790 volumes of reports, time-tables, parts of 

 periodicals, &c., have been formed, in a light style of bind- 

 ing, 



The following maps, charts, fcc, have also been bound or 

 mounted during the year : — 25 atlases, 40 volumes of the 

 Ordnance Survey of Towns, 57 volumes of the 25-inch 

 Ordnance Survey, and 2 volumes of the 6-inch Ordnance 

 Survey have been bound ; 122 sheets of the 1-inch 

 Ordnance Survey, 74 sheets of the English Admiralty 

 Charts, 17 sheets of the " Hydrographie frangaise," and 

 214 general maps have been mounted on linen, and 328 

 maps, &c.. mounted on cards. 



Three thousand eight hundred and sixty-seven pamphlets, 

 forming part of the collection of pamphlets relating to the 

 French Revolution, 1789-1815, have been arranged in 143 

 classified volumes and sent for binding. 



IV. Reading Room Service. — The number of volumes 

 returned to the General Library from use in the Reading 

 Room has been 889,524 ; to the Royal Library, 21,415 ; to the 

 Grenville Library, 1,374 ; to the Map Room, 3,928 ; to the 

 presses in which books are kept from day to day for the use 

 of readers, 508,758; and to the Oriental Department, 3,536; 

 making a total amount of 1,428,535 volumes supplied to 

 readers during the year. The number of readers during the 

 year has been 191,363, giving an average of about 630 

 daily, the room having been open on 304 days, and an 

 average of over seven volumes daily for each reader, not 

 reckoning those taken from the shelves of the Reading Room 

 by the readers themselves. 



Ifewspaper Room. — The number of readers during the 



year has been 12,741, giving a daily average of 42. The 



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