ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BEITISH MUSEUM. 



General Library. 



The additions to the General Library during the past year 

 have been : — 



By purchase - - - 379 volumes and 3 maps. 



By donation - - - 276 volumes and 25 maps. 

 By transfer from other 



Departments - - 164 volumes. 



Total - - 819 volumes and 28 maps. 



All these works have been catalogued, press-marked, 

 stamped, and placed on the shelves. 



The extent of this collection on the 31st of December was 

 22,055 volumes and 3,645 maps. 



The work of cataloguing the books in the Departmental 

 Libraries has been continued during the year, with the follow- 

 ing results : — 



2,117 title-slips have been prepared and revised for the 

 Botanical Libary, 



313 for the Geological Library, 



78 for the Mineralogical Library, and 



8,707 for the Zoological Library. 



11,215 - - Total. 



The work in the General Library, and in the Libraries of 

 the Geological and Mineralogical Departments, has been kept 

 up to date. The cataloguing of the Books in the Botanical 

 Library was completed early in the year, and has since been 

 kept up ; whilst, as will be seen from the foregoing figures, a 

 large amount of work has been done in the Zoological Library. 



W. H. Flower, 



Director. 

 British Museum (Natural History), 

 1 April 1893. 



