116 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM. 



Catalogue of Fossil Fishes, Part V., by Dr. A. S. 

 Woodward, f.r.s. 



Monograph of Mycetozoa, by A. Lister, f.r.s. New edition,, 

 revised and enlarged. 



Flora of Jamaica, by W. Fawcett, Vol. II. 

 Catalogue of the Sloane Herbarium, by J. Britten. 



General Library. 



The additions to the General Library during the past year 

 have been : — 



By purchase _ - _ 318 volumes. 



By transfer from other 



Departments - - - T5 volumes. 

 By donation - - - 625 volumes, 22 maps, and 



46 photographs. 



Total - - 958 volumes, 22 maps, and 

 46 photographs. 

 All the volumes and maps have been catalogued, press- 

 marked, and put in their places ; 578 volumes have been 

 bound in 332, and none have been repaired. 



The extent of the collection on the olst of December was 

 39,954 volumes, 5,699 maps, and 525 photographs (not including 

 those in the Owen Collection of Drawings. &c.). 



The accessions to the Departmental Libraries have also been 

 catalogued as they came in, and duplicate transcripts of the 

 titles have been returned with the books. 



Altogether 2,580 title-slips have been written, 447 re- 

 written, and 3,602 revised (independently of those prepared for 

 printing). 



There are now, on a rough estimate, 87,932 volumes (ex- 

 clusive of continuations and minor separate items) and 6,031 

 maps in the whole building. 



The printing of the Catalogue was proceeded with, Vol. III. 

 (L-0) was issued, and the work at the end of the year stood as 

 follows : — 



No. of sheets passed for press (A — Penn) - - 193 



No. of title-slips set up in type (A — Popp) - - 45,496 



A list of "■ Place-Numbers of the Societies and other Corporate 

 Bodies issuing Serial Publications, and of the independent 

 Periodical Publications, with an alphabetical Index of the 

 Places of Publication," was prepared, printed, and issued for 

 the use of the staff of the Museum. 



The number of visits paid to the Library during the year 

 by students and others (irrespective of the staff and persons to 

 whom the use of a key is granted) was 2,177. 



