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into each of three copies of it. This incorporation has rendered 

 it necessary to remove and re-insert 7,478 title-slips in each 

 copy and to add to each copy 154 new leaves. 



Music Catalogue. — 14,940 titles have been written for 

 the Music Catalogue, and 13,667 title-slips have been incorpo- 

 rated into each of two copies of it. This incorporation has 

 rendered it necessary to remove and re-insert 24,744 title-slips 

 in each copy and to add to each copy 565 new leaves. 



Shelf Catalogue. — For this Catalogue, in which the title- 

 slips, mounted on cards, are arranged in order of press- 

 marks, about 32,000 have been so mounted and about 80,000 

 have been incorporated in their proper order. 



Catalogue of Boohs of Reference in the Reading Room. — 

 This Catalogue, which is in two parts, Part I. containing an 

 alphabetical list of books entered under the names of the 

 authors, Part II., containing a subject-index, has been completed, 

 and is now available for the use of readers. 



Catalogue of Books printed during the XVth Century. — 

 All the books for Part II. of this Catalogue have now been 

 described, and about half of the part is now in type. 



III. Binding. — The number of volumes and sets of 

 pamphlets sent to be bound in the course of the year was 

 12,697, including 4,459 volumes of newspapers. In conse- 

 quence of the frequent adoption of the plan of binding two 

 or more volumes in one, the number of volumes returned 

 was 11,893. In addition to this, 377 volumes have been 

 repaired in the binders' shops. 



Besides this, the following binding work has been done in 

 the Library itself : — 2,965 volumes have been repaired ; 197 

 broadsides, &c., have been inserted in guard-books, and 5,000 

 volumes of reports, parts of periodicals, &c., have been bound 

 in a light style of binding. 



The following maps, charts, &c., have also been bound or 

 mounted during the year : — 9 atlases and 96 volumes of the 

 6-inch and 25-inch Ordnance Survey have been bound, and 

 50 Admiralty Charts have been mounted on linen ; in addition, 

 219 general maps have been mounted on linen in 3,670 sheets, 

 and 206 maps have been mounted on cards in 426 sheets. 

 In addition to this, two atlases have been repaired. 



36,179 numbers of Colonial Newspapers have been folded 

 into 673 parcels, which have been tied up and labelled pre- 

 paratory to being bound. 



Four volumes of the Blue Copy, 13 volumes of the Red 

 Copy, and 12 volumes of the Green Copy of the General 

 Catalogue, have been broken up and rebound in 38 new volumes. 

 Forty-four columns have been relaid, owing to the accumu- 

 lation of titles under certain headings, as well as 167 columns 

 of reprinted headings, in each of the three interleaved copies 

 pf the General Catalogue. In addition, one volume of the Blue 



