20 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM. 



" France," "Liturgies," the remainder of '' Bible" and a part 

 of the heading " England " have been printed during the past 

 year. 



Progress has been made during the year in the preparation 

 of a Supplement to the General Catalogue which will contain 

 the titles of all books which were added to the Library 

 during the years 1882-1899, inclusive, but were not incorpo- 

 rated in the Catalogue during the process of printing. 



Thirty manuscript volumes have been prepared and sent 

 to press during the year, and 10 printed parts, representing 

 51 manuscript volumes, have been delivered by the printer. 

 The revision and reprinting of the heading " Periodical 

 Publications," which was begun in 1898, was almost completed 

 at the end of the year. 



(c) Incorporation. — (1) General Catalogue. — 29,606 title- 

 slips and 348 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 alphabetical arrangement, to remove and re-insert 44,633 

 title-slips in each copy and to add to each copy 598 new 

 leaves ; while, in the preparation of the manuscript volumes 

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

 16,991 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 263 ; in that of 

 " Periodical Publications," 633 ; in that of " Maps and Charts," 

 1,154 ; and in the Hand Catalogues of London and of country 

 Newspapers, 1,563 and 2,800 respectively. 



{d) Map Catalogue. — 1,635 titles have been written for the 

 Map Catalogue and J, 070 title- slips have been incorporated 

 into each of three copies of it. This incorporation has 

 rendered it necessary to remove and re-insert 1,907 title-slips 

 in each copy and to add to each copy 21 new leaves. 



(e) Music Catalogue. — 11,617 titles have been written for 

 the Music Catalogue, and 18,173 title-slips have been incorpo- 

 rated into each of two copies of it. This incorporation 

 has rendered it necessary to remove and i-e-insert 25,821 title- 

 slips in each copy and to add to each copy 114 new leaves. 



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

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

 of press-marks, 25,820 have been so mounted and 130,000 

 have been incorporated into the boxes. 



(ff) 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 



