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have been described and indexed. Two hundred and sixty- 

 four MSS. of the Stowe Collection have been described. 



The acquisitions of the year have been entered in the 

 registers. 



6. Catalogues of Charters, Rolls, and Seals. — The final 

 revision for the Press of the General Index of names and 

 subjects in the several collections of Charters and Rolls 

 acquired before the year 1882 is in progress. 



Additional Charters and Rolls 28,416, 28,418-28,560, 

 acquired in 1886 ; and 33,883-34,269, acquired in 1888, have 

 been described. 



Additional Charters and Rolls 36,453-37,377, acquired in 

 1890, have been arranged and numbered. 



The preparation of the fair copy for the second volume of 

 the Catalogue of Seals has been continued. The description 

 of Heraldic Seals has been continued. 



Ninety detached seals and casts of seals have been arranged 

 and registered. 



A second volume of Index of Seals has been prepared, 

 bound, and issued, comprising the original seals appended to 

 the Stowe Charters, 1-570, acquired in the year 1883 ; the 

 Egerton Charters 417-589, acquired in the years 1879-1889 ; 

 and the Additional Charters, 26,108-36,455, acquired in the 

 years 1879-1890 ; and the detached seals and casts of seals, 

 XLIX. 21-XCIV. 6, acquired in the years 1879-1890. 



7. Catalogue of Papyri. — Sheets B — M of the Catalogue 

 have been revised. 



Papyri CXXVI-CXXXVI. have been prepared for press ; 

 and CXXXI, verso, ('A^rjvatwv iroXiTela ) has been passed 

 through the press . 



8. Arrangement of Papers. — Additional MSS. 33,611- 

 33,616, 33,820-33,836, 33,878-33,929, and 33,938-33,941 have 

 been arranged. 



9. Class Catalogue. — The distribution of the slips of the 

 List of Additions, 1882-1887, throughout the Class Cata- 

 logue has been completed, with the exception of Private and 

 State Letters. 



10. Exhibitions. — The Illuminated Manuscripts previously 

 exhibited in the King's Library have been transferred to the 

 Grenville Library, and their number has been largely in- 

 creased. A case of typical bindings from the 10th to the 16th 

 century has also been added. A new Guide to the MSS., 

 Charters, Seals, Illuminations, and Bindings exhibited in the 

 Department and in the Grenville Library has been issued ; and 

 that portion of the new General Synopsis lately published 

 which relates to the Department has been re-written. 



11. Binding, etc. — Three hundred and forty-four MSS. 

 recently acquired and one hundred and twenty-eight MSS. of 

 the old collections have been bound or repaired. 



Nine Papyri have been unrolled and mounted. 



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