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10. Exhibitions. — A temporary exhibition of MSS. and 

 other documents illustrating the history of the Church of 

 England from the time of Augustine was arranged in the 

 King's Library at the time of the Conference of Bishops at 

 Lambeth Palace in July. 



11. Arrangement of Papers. — Additional MSS. 35,072, 

 35,126-35,133, acquired in 1897, have been arranged. 



12. Autographs. — The third series of " Facsimiles of 

 Royal, Historical, Literary, and other Autographs " has been 

 published. 



13. Binding. — Two hundred and eleven Additional and 

 three Egerton MSS., newly acquired, and two hundred and 

 ninety- one MSS. of the old collections have been bound or 

 repaired. 



Forty-nine Charters and Seals have been repaired. 



Fifty-three Papyri have been glazed. 



Sixty-two Printed Books have been bound. 



14. Verification. — The several collections of Manuscripts 

 and 1,369 boxes of Charters have been verified by the Shelf- 

 lists. 



15. Stamping, folioing, and placing. — Seventy Additional 

 and five Egerton MSS. have been placed and entered in the 

 Hand-lists and Shelf-lists. 



Forty-five Charters and a hundred and seventy-nine Rolls 

 have been placed. Six hundred and sixteen Charters and 

 Rolls have had their numeration written on the backs. 



Two hundred and eight Additional MSS. and five hundred 

 and seventy-six Charters and Rolls have been stamped with 

 a total of 18,947 impressions. 



One hundred and seventy-nine MSS. have been folio'd with 

 a total of 37,885 folios ; and the Slip Indexes of Additions 

 for 1896, with 6,205 folios. The Charter index slips have 

 been folio'd, amounting to 22,064 folios. 



16. Consultation of MSS. — The number of MSS. con- 

 sulted in the Students' Room attached to the Department is 

 30,909, and of those delivered to the Reading Room 894. 



The number of Charters and Rolls consulted by the 

 Students is 716. 



The number of Students working in the Department durino- 

 the year is 9,972. "^ 



The Magna Carta has been exhibited to 2,331 Visitors in the 

 Department. 



17. Books of Reference. — One hundred and forty-eight 

 newly- acquired volumes and parts have been catalogued. 

 The revision of the Catalogue is in progress. 



