22 ' ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM. 



Music Catalogue. — 9,367 titles have been written for 

 the Music Catalogue, and 13,394 title-slips have been incorpo- 

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

 rendered it necessary to remove and re-insert 23,312 title-slips 

 in each copy and to add to each copy 568 new leaves. 



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

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

 marks, 32,200 have been so mounted and 55,400 have been 

 incorporated in their proper order. 



Catalogue of Books printed during the XVth Century. — 

 Part II. of this Catalogue, containing the descriptions of the 

 books printed at Eltvil, Augsburg, Nuremberg, and twenty 

 other German towns will shortly be issued. 



Subject Index.— The " Subject Index of the Modern Works 

 added to the Library of the British Museum in the years 1906- 

 1910 " was published by the Trustees in November, 1911. 



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

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

 15,226, including 3,308 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 10,822. In addition to this, 465 volumes have been 

 repaired in the binders' shops. 



Besides this, the following binding work has been done in 

 the Library itself : — 3,374 volumes have been repaired, 97 

 broadsides, &c. have been inserted in guard-books, and 5,640 

 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 : — 7 atlases and 172 volumes of the 

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

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

 243 general maps have been mounted on linen in 1,528 sheets, 

 and 292 maps have been mounted on cards in 393 sheets. 



32,858 numbers of Colonial Newspapers have been folded 

 into 659 parcels, and 527 parcels have been tied up and labelled. 



13 volumes of the Blue Copy, 18 volumes of the Red 

 Copy, and 9 volumes of the Green Copy of the General 

 Catalogue, have been broken up and re-bound in 61 new volumes. 

 264 columns have been re-laid, owing to the accumulation of 

 titles under certain headings, as well as 124 columns of 

 reprinted headings, in each of the three interleaved copies of 

 the General Catalogue. 10 volumes of the Music Catalogue 

 have been re-bound in 19 new volumes. 



IV. Reading Room Service. — The number of volumes re- 

 placed in the General Library after use in the Reading Room 

 was 766,000 ; in the King's Librarj^ 24,165 ; in the Grenville 

 Library, 2,011; in the Map Room, 7,335; in the presses in 

 which books are kept from day to day for the use of readers, 

 662,691 ; and in the Oriental Department, 2,547 ; making a 



