S6 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM. 



Department of Oriental Printed Books and 

 Manuscripts. 



Cataloguing and Arrangernent. 



The numbers of the sheets of the various Oriental Cata- 

 logues sent to press in 1899 are : — Arabic, 3 sheets ; Coptic 

 MSS., 17 sheets ; Hebrew (Accessions), 19 sheets ; Hebrew 

 MSS., 18 sheets; Hindi and Panjabi MSS., 7 sheets; 

 Hindustani, 3| sheets ; Sinhalese Books, 8 sheets ; Sinhalese 

 MSS., 5 sheets ; Syriac MSS., List of, 50 pages. 



The numbers of Titles written for the Catalogues are : — 

 Arabic, 369; Armenian, 58; Assyrian, 2; Bengali, 15; 

 Burmese, 21 ; Chin, 2 ; Chinese, 1,011 ; Ethiopic, 9 ; Gujarati, 

 56 ; Hebrew, 591 ; Hindi, 255 ; Hindustani, 382 ; Japanese, 

 68 ; Lushai, 2 ; Maltese, 16 ; Marathi, 26 ; Palmyrene, 1 ; 

 Panjabi, 31 ; Persian, 109 ; Samaritan, 4 ; Sanskrit, 956 ; Sin- 

 halese, 128 ; Syriac, 39 ; Tamil, 4 ; Tibetan, 16 ; Turkish, 50. 



Eighty-one Coptic MSS., 5 Hebrew and Samaritan MSS., 

 and 47 Hindi MSS. have been fully catalogued. 



Short descriptions of 235 MSS. have been entered in the 

 Descriptive List, the Register, and the Classed Inventory. 

 Four Printed Books (ff. 839), and 193 MSS. (ff. 34,257) have 

 been folioed. 



The number of Students working in the Students' Room 

 attached to the Department during the year is 2,862. The 

 number of Oriental Printed Books consulted in the Depart- 

 ment is 3,169, and of those used in the Reading Room 148. 

 The number of Oriental MSS. consulted in the Students' 

 Room is 4,734. 



Binding. 



The numbers of Printed Books and MSS. sent to the binder 

 .are : — Arabic Books, 208 ; Chinese Books, 321 ; Hebrew Books, 

 141; Sanskrit Books, 79 ; MSS., 199 ; Pamphlets, 133. 



Additions. 



The number of works added to the Department during the 

 year is 2,379, of which 2,144 are Printed Books and 235 are 



MSS. 



Of the Printed Books, 442 were bought ; 1,451 were received 

 under the India Copyright Act ; 172 were presented. 



