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additions to each of the interleaved copies of the Catalogue 

 of this collection was G6. 



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 interleaved copies of the Catalogue of this collection 

 was 235. 



The Subject-Index of the modern works added to the 

 Library in the years 1880-1885 has been kept up to date by 

 the Superintendent of the Reading Room, and a new series, 

 covering the years 1886-1890, is being prepared for the 

 press. 



III. Binding. — The number of volumes and pamphlets 

 sent to be bound in the course of the year was 12,191, includ- 

 ing 1,851 volumes of newspapers. In consequence of the fre- 

 quent adoption of the plan of binding two or more volumes in 

 one, the total number of bound volumes returned was 7,443 ; in 

 addition to which 560 pamphlets have been separately bound. 

 1,183 volumes have been repaired. 



IV. Reading Roo'm Service. — The number of volumes 

 returned to the General Library from use in the Reading 

 Room was 764,014 ; to the Royal Library, 14,584 ; to the Gren- 

 ville Library, 1,006 ; and to the presses in which books are 

 kept from day to day for the use of readers, 446,522 ; making 

 a total amount of 1,226,126 volumes supplied to readers 

 during the year. The number of readers during the year 

 has been 197,823, giving an average of about 652 daily ; 

 and an average of over six volumes daily for each reader, 

 not reckoning those taken from the shelves of the Reading 

 Room. 



News'pa'per Room. — The total number of readers during the 

 year has been 15,216, giving a daily average of 50. The 

 number of volumes replaced after use was 51,097, giving a 

 daily average of about three volumes to each reader. 



V. Duplicates. — The distribution of duplicate books has 

 been completed. The following libraries, in addition to those 

 enumerated in the annual report for 1889, have now partici- 

 pated in this donation, viz.: the Libraries of Trinity College, 

 Dublin, and of the Corporation of The Church House, and the 

 Free Libraries at Lambeth, Kensington, Wandsworth, 

 Croydon, Portsmouth, Plymouth, Barnstaple, Hereford, 

 Harrogate, Southport, Oldham, Wigan, Bolton, Sunderland, 

 Middlesborough, Rochdale, Richmond (Surrey), and Stoke 

 Newington. As stated above, 10,858 transfer stamps have 

 been impressed upon these duplicates. 



VI. Additions. — (a.) 35,728 volumes and pamphlets (includ- 

 ing 1,096 books of music) have been added to the Library in 



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