14 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM. 



VII. — PROGRESS made in the Arrangement and Cata- 

 loguing OF Collections, and Additions made to 

 them, in the Year 1891. (Bloomsbury.) 



Department of Printed Books. 



I. Arrangement.— The works added to the collection during 

 the past year have, as far as possible, been placed on the 

 shelves of the Library according to the system of classifica- 

 tion adopted in the Museum. The press-marks, indicating 

 their respective localities, have been marked on the inside 

 and affixed to the back of each volume ; also on the title- 

 slips. The total number of these press-marks amounts to 

 76,907 ; in addition to which 33,231 press-marks have been 

 altered, in consequence of changes and re-arrangements 

 carried out in the Library ; 31,376 labels have been fixed 

 to books and volumes of newspapers, and 79,790 obliterated 

 labels have been renewed. The process of attaching third- 

 marks to the books in the New Library, with the view of 

 accelerating their delivery to readers, has been continued ; 

 20,715 books have been thus marked during the year, and 

 the corresponding alterations have been carried out in the 

 Reading-room and Hand Catalogues ; 4,664 volumes of 

 country newspapers have also been numbered, and for London 

 and country newspapers 9,817 index-slips have been written. 

 The number of stamps impressed upon articles received 

 is 390,691. About 3,330 presses of books and newspapers 

 have been dusted in the course of the year. 



II. Catalogues. — (a.) Cataloguing. — 52,935 titles have 

 been written (the term "title" applying equally to a main 

 title and to a cross reference). Of these, 39,692 were written 

 for the General Catalogue, and 13,243 for the separate Cata- 

 logues of Music and of the Oriental Collections. 



(6.) Printing. — 43,344 titles and 1,219 index-slips have been 

 prepared for printing during the year, upon the plan an- 

 nounced in the Statement of Progress for 1879 ; and 41,368 

 title-slips and 1,219 index-slips have been printed off. Pro- 

 gress has also been made in printing the whole Catalogue in 

 alphabetical sequence from the beginning. With the exception 

 of the headings " Bible " (begun), " England," " France," 

 " Great Britain," " Liturgies," " Luther," and a few others, 

 the Catalogue, at the end of 1891, was either printed or at 

 press as far as the heading " Metman." 



One hundred and forty-two manuscript volumes have 

 been printed during the past year, forming 22 printed parts. 



(c.) Incorporation. — (1.) General Catalogue. — 43,164 title- 

 slips and 521 index-slips have been incorporated into each 



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