88 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM. 



Depaetment of Oriental Printed Books and MSS. 



Cataloguing and Arrangement. — The numbers of the 

 sheets of the various Oriental Catalogues and other Publica- 

 tions of the Department sent to press in 1910 are : — Bengali 

 Books, 14 ; Index to Chinese Encyclopaedia, 14 ; Hebrew MSS., 

 5; Coptic Texts, 55; Kanarese Books, 19 ; Telugu Books, 2. 



The numbers of Titles written for the Catalogues are : — 

 Arabic, 722 ; Assamese, 30 ; Avestan, 14 ; Babylonian, 1 

 Bengali, 2G4 ; Berber, 1 ; Brahui, 2 ; Burmese, 92 ; Chin, 6 

 Chinese, 828 ; Coptic, 12 ; Ethiopic, 20 ; Gujarati, 41; Hebrew 

 120; Hindi, 453; Hindustani, 394; Javanese, 14; Kannada 

 679 ; Karen, 4 ; Kashmiri, 25 ; Kurdish, 5 ; Laos, 3 ; Lepcha, 2 

 Lushai, 8; Malay, 5 ; Malayalam, 34; Marathi, 120 ; Mongolian 

 5 ; Oriya, 24; Pahlavi, 8; Pali, 171 ; Panjabi, 48; Persian, 919 

 Prakrit, 2 ; Pushtu, 15 ; Sanskrit, 1,063 ; Santali, 7 ; Siamese, 16 

 Sindhi, 8; Sinhalese, 187; Syriac, 42; Talaing, 2; Tamil, 345 

 Telugu, 830 ; Tibetan, 21 ; Tulu, 12 ; Turkish, 47. 



Seventy-three Armenian MSS. and 58 Hebrew MSS. have 

 been fully catalogued. 



One hundred and nine short descriptions of MSS. have been 

 entered in the Descriptive List, the Eegister, and the Classed 

 Inventory. 



One hundred and fourteen MSS. (21,261 ff.) and 5 Printed 

 Books (1,051 fF.) have been folioed. 



Publications. — Volume i. of the Coptic Texts (Coptic 

 Homilies in the Dialect of Upper Egypt), a Supplementary 

 Catalogue of Bengali Books, and a Catalogue of Kannada 

 Books, have been issued. 



Binding. — The numbers of Printed Books and MSS. sent to 

 the binders are: — Arabic Books, 97; Chinese Books, 152; 

 Hebrew Books, 20 ; Persian and Turkish Books, 54 ; Sanskrit 

 and Pali Books, 181 ; Tibetan Books, 16 ; MSS., 271. 



Students. — The number of visits of Students working in the 

 Students' Room attached to the Department during the year is 

 2,218. The number of Oriental Printed Books consulted in 

 the Department is 6,640 (3,992 issued once only, and 2,648 

 reserved), and of those used in the Beading Boom, 2,619. 

 The number of Oriental MSS. consulted in the Students' Room 

 is 5,060. 



Photography. — One hundred and twenty-seven applications 

 have been made to photograph books and MSS. 



Additions. — The num^ber of volumes and pamphlets added 

 to the Department during the year is 2,545, of which 2,339 are 

 Printed Books and 206 are MSS. 



Of the Printed Books, 642 were bought ; 1,343 were received 

 under the India Copyright Act ; 220 were received under the 



