BRITISH MUSEUM (NATURAL HISTORY). 95 



General Library. 



The additions to the General Library during the past year 

 have been : — 



By purchase - - - 323 volumes. 



By donation - - - 428 volumes and 83 maps. 



By transfer from other 



Departments - - 35 volumes and 1 map. 



Total - - 786 volumes and 84 maps. 



All these works have been catalogued, press-marked, 

 and placed on the shelves. 



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

 26,235 volumes and 3,881 maps. 



The Owen collection of drawings has been arranged and 

 mounted on 499 sheets, and a few of those illustrating Sir 

 E. Home's papers have been bound in one volume. 



The accessions to the Departmental Libraries have also been 

 catalogued as they came in. Altogether 1,376 title-slips 

 have been written, 342 re-written, and 2,450 revised. 



There are now on a rough estimate, 72,061 volumes and 

 5,699 maps in the whole building (exclusive of minor 

 separata). 



The printing of the Catalogue having been authorised, a 

 specimen was prepared, and the first 1,000 slips were sent to 

 the printers at the close of the year. 



The number of students and visitors, irrespective of the 

 staff, making use of the Library during the year was 587. 



W. H. Flower, 



Director. 

 British Museum (Natural History), 

 31 March 1898. 



