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•changes in this collection by the addition of new works, and the 

 ■exchange of old for new editions, have been niade. The number 

 of additions to each copy has been 135. 



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 two interleaved copies of the Catalogue of this collec- 

 tion has been l8l. 



IIL Binding. — The number of volumes and sets of 

 pamphlets sent to be bound in the course of the year has been 

 15,194, including 1,932 volumes of ne\\^spapers. In conse- 

 quence of the frequent adoption of the plan of binding two or 

 more volumes in one, the number of volumes returned 

 has been 8,97C ; in addition to which 590 pamphlets have been 

 separately bound. 406 volumes have been repaired at the 

 binder's, besides which 5,129 volumes have been repaired in 

 the Library, and 1,317 broadsides, sheets, «Sz;c., have been 

 .inserted into guard-books, the plan, tried towards tie end of 

 1892, of effecting the slighter repairs in the Libr? ry itself 

 liaving been continued and extended. A further alteration 

 has been introduced in the method of binding time-tables, 

 reports, &c., &c., such as are not likely to be in frequent 

 demand. Sets of these are temporarily bound in a light 

 form, only being stitched together when necessary. 774 

 volumes have been thus formed between July and December 

 last. This work also is done in the Library; and considerable 

 economy, besides much greater rapidity in execution, results 

 from the system. 



The following maps, charts, «fcc., have also been bound or 

 mounted during the year: — 46 atlases, 11 volumes of the 

 Ordnance Survey of towns, 74 volumes of the 25-inch 

 Ordnance Survey and 4 volumes of the 6-inch Ordnance 

 Survey have been bound ; 82 sheets of the 1-inch (and under) 

 Ordnance Survey, 52 sheets of the 1-inch Geological Survey, 

 86 sheets of the English Admiralty charts, 590 sheets of the 

 " Carte de la France," scale 1-100,000, and 262 general 

 maps, &c., have been mounted on jaconet, and 503 maps, ifec.,, 

 mounted on cards, 



IV. Reading Room Service. — The number of volumes 

 returned to the General Library from use in the Reading 

 Room has been 952,405 ; to the Royal Library, 21,157; to the 

 Grenville Library, 1,328 ; to the Map Room, 3,342 ; to the 

 presses in which books are kept from day to day for the use 

 of readers, 488,206 ; and to the Oriental Department 3,753 ; 

 making a total amount of 1,470,191 volumes supplied to 

 readers during the year. The number of readers during the 

 year has been 202,973, giving an average of about 670 



0.9^. B 2 daily. 



