20 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM. 



TX. — PROGRESS made in the Arrangement and Descrip- 

 tion OF THE Collections, and Account of 

 Objects added to them in the Year 1910 (Blooms- 

 bury). 



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 classification 

 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. 



The total number of these press-marks amounts to 71,542 ; 

 in addition to which 153,151 press-marks have been altered, 

 on books and in the catalogues, in consequence of changes and 

 re-arrangements carried out in the Library ; 35,846 labels have 

 been affixed to books and volumes of newspapers, and 103,356 

 labels have been renewed. 



The number of stamps impressed upon articles received is 

 421,750. 



4,525 presses of books and newspapers have been dusted in 

 the course of the year. 



II. Catalogues. — Cataloguing. — 52,172 titles have been 

 written for the General Catalogue and for the Catalogues of 

 Maps and Music. 



Printing. — 32,636 titles and index-slips for the General 

 Catalogue, 2,022 titles for the Map Catalogue, and 14, 797 for the 

 Music Catalogue have been prepared for printing during the 

 year ; and 33,953 titles and index-slips for the General Cata- 

 logue, 4,561 titles for the Map Catalogue, and 14,797 for the Music 

 Catalogue, have been printed. 



Reprinting. — 47 columns have been revised, rearranged, 

 and reprinted during the year. 



Incorporation. — General Catalogue. — 33,244 title-slips and 

 index-slips have been incorporated into each of three copies of 

 this Catalogue. This incorporation has rendered it necessary, 

 in order to maintain as far as possible the alphabetical arrange- 

 ment, to remove and re-insert 43,698 title-slips and index-slips 

 in each copy and to add to each copy 684 new leaves. 



The system of fortnightly incorporation of accessions to 

 the Library has been carried out with perfect regularity during 

 the year. 



Map Catalogue. — 2,865 titles have been written for the 

 Map Catalogue, and 3,164 title-slips have been incorporated 



