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the i3xchange of old for new editions, have been made. The 

 number of additions to each copy has been 21 



The 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 113. 



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

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

 14,061, including 3,951 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 9,156 ; in addition to which 136 pamphlets have been 

 separately bound and 84 volumes have been repaired at the 

 binder's. 



Besides this, the following binding work has been done 

 in the Library itself : — 4,739 volumes have been repaired ; 

 34 broadsides, fee, have been inserted in guard-books and 

 3,402 volumes of reports, time-tables, parts of periodicals, &c., 

 have been formed, in a light style of binding. 



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

 mounted during the year :— 28 atlases, 3 volumes of the 

 Ordnance Survey of Towns and 43 volumes of the 25- inch 

 Ordnance Survey have been bound ; 136 sheets of the 

 1-inch Ordnance Survey of England, 131 sheets of the 1-inch 

 Ordnance Survey of Scotland, 34 sheets of the 1-inch Geo- 

 logical Survey of England, 24 sheets of the |-inch Geological 

 Survey of Canada, 71 sheets of the English Admiralty 

 Charts, 31 sheets of the Austrian Staff Map and 879 general 

 maps have been mounted on linen and 136 maps, &c., 

 mounted on cards. 



IV. Reading Room Service. — The number of volumes 

 returned to the General Library from use in the Reading 

 Room has been 830,541 ; to the Royal Library, 24,165 ; to the 

 Grenville Library, 1,258 ; to the Map Room, 3,442 ; to the 

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

 of readers, 534,187 ; and to the Oriental Department, 3,552 ; 

 making a total amount of 1,397,145 volumes supplied to 

 readers during the year. The number of readers during the 

 year has been 190,886, giving an average of over 627 

 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. 



Reiuspaper Room. — The number of readers during the 

 year has been 17,570, giving a daily average of over 57. The 

 jiumber of volumes replaced after use was 52,167, giving a 



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