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

 the exchange of old for new editions, have been made ; they 

 number 31 in each copy. 



Additions have also been made to the collection of books 

 in the Galleries of the Heading Room by the incorporation of 

 iiew works of interest and importance, and by the substitution 

 of new for older editions. The number of such additions to 

 each of the two interleaved copies of the Catalogue of this 

 collection is 78. 



III. Binding. — The number of volumes and sets oi!^ 

 pamphlets sent to be bound in the course of the year was 

 15,038, including 3,974 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 

 was 10,048 ; in addition to which 207 pamphlets have been 

 separately bound and 57 volumes have been repaired at the 

 binder's. 



Besides this, the following binding work has been don(; 

 in the Library itself : — 4,178 volumes have been repaired ; 

 355 broadsides, &c. have been inserted in guard-books and 

 4,682 volumes of reports, time-tables, parts of periodicals, &c., 

 have been formed, in a light style of binding. 



The following maps, charts, &c., have also been bound or 

 mounted during the year: — 20 atlases and 77 volumes of the 

 25-inch Ordnance Survey haA'e been bound ; 178 sheets of 

 the 1-inch Ordnance Survey, 183 sheets of Admiralty Charts, 

 and 628 general maps have been mounted on linen and 291 

 maps mounted on caids. 



During the past year the arrangement and binding of the 

 collections of works relating to the French Revolution 

 preserved in the Library, have been completed, and a 

 synopsis of the contents of the 3,420 volumes in which the 

 48,579 pamphlets and sets of periodicals have been bound, 

 has been issued under the title of " List of the contents of 

 the three collections of books, pamphlets and journals in the 

 British Museum, relating to the French Revolution." 



lY. Reading Room Service. — The number of volumes 

 returned to the General Library from use in the Reading 

 Room was 758,663 ; to the Royal Library, 23,401 ; to the 

 Grenville Library, 1,122 ; to the Map Room, 3,805 ; to the 

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

 of readers, 512,408 ; to the Oriental Department, 2,911 ; and 

 to the presses in that Department where books are kept 

 from day to day, 3,768 ; making a total amount of 1,306,078 

 volumes supplied to readers during the year. The number 

 of readers during the year was 188,554, giving an average 

 of over 624 daily, the room having been open on 302 days, 

 and an average of almost seven volumes daily for each 

 reader, not reckoning those taken from the shelves of the 

 Reading Room by the readers themselves. 



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