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articles " Germany " and the greater part of " Bible " have 

 been printed, and the preparation of the remaining headings 

 " England," with which is now incorporated " Great Britain " 

 and " Great Britain and Ireland," " France," and " Liturgies " 

 is well advanced. 



Thirty-seven manuscript volumes have been prepared and 

 sent to press during the year, and two printed parts, repre- 

 senting ten manuscript volumes, have been delivered by the 

 printer. Eleven of the volumes issued in 1881, the first year 

 of printing, have been reprinted, and the heading " Periodical 

 Publications" is also being revised and reprinted. 



(c) IncoviJOTation.--{X) General Catalogue. — 29,782 title- 

 slips and 644 index-slips have been incorporated into each 

 of the three copies of this Catalogue. This incorporation has 

 rendered it necessary, in order to maintain, as far as possible, 

 the al]3habetical arrangement, to remove and re-insert 30,966 

 title-slips in each copy, and to add to each copy 546 new 

 leaves ; while, in the preparation of the manuscript volumes 

 for printing, it has been necessary to remove and re-insert 

 22,670 title-slips in one copy only. 



The system of fortnightly incorporation, introduced in 

 1889, has been carried out with perfect regularity during the 

 past year. 



(2) Hand Catalogues. — The number of new entries made in 

 the Hand Catalogue of " Academies " was 346 ; in that of 

 " Periodical Publications," 539 ; in that of Maps and Charts, 

 2,071; in that of Music, 3,130; and in the Hand Catalogues 

 of London and of Country Newspapers, 1,250 and 2,682 

 respectively. 



(d) Map Catalogue. — 2,150 titles have been written for the 

 Map Catalogue, and 2,563 title- slips have been incorporated 

 into each of the three copies of it. This incorporation has 

 rendered it necessary to remove and re-insert 3,643 title-slips 

 in each copy and to add to each copy 37 new leaves. 



(e) Music Catalogue. — 13,488 titles have been written for 

 the Music Catalogue, and 4,158 title-slips have been incorpo- 

 rated into each of the two copies of it. This incorporation 

 has rendered it necessary to remove and re-insert 6,670 title- 

 slips in each copy and to add to each copy oQ new leaves. 



(/) Shelf Catalogue. — For this Catalogue, in which the 

 title-slips, mounted on cartridge paper, are arranged in order 

 of press-marks, about 23,460 have been so mounted, and about 

 134,150 have been incorporated into the boxes. 



(jj) Catalogues of Boohs of Reference in the Reading Room. 

 — The additions and alterations in each of the three inter- 

 leaved copies of the Catalogue of Books of Reference in the 

 "Reading Room, which are requisite in order to record the 

 changes in this collection by the addition of new works, and 



