110 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM. 



General Library. 



The additions to the General Library during the past year 

 have been : — 



By purchase - . _ 327 volumes. 



By transfer from other 



Departments - . _ 2 volumes and 10 photo- 

 graphs. 



By donation - - - 715 volumes, 87 maps, and 



147 photographs. 



Total - - 1,044 volumes, 87 maps, and 

 157 photographs. 



The most important donation of the year was that of fifty 

 volumes, chiefly on his travels, received from H.I. and E.H. the 

 Archduke Ludwig Salvator of Austria, The other personal 

 donors to the Library during the year were : — 



Austen, E. E., Esq. 

 Bagshaw, W., Esq. 

 Caiman, Dr. T. W. 

 Dean, Dr. Bashford. 

 Fagan, C. E., Esq. 

 Fletcher, Dr. L. 

 Harmer, Dr. S. F. 

 Hopkinson, John, Esq. 

 Jackson, J. Wilfred, Esq. 



Kofoid, C. A., Esq. 

 Orleans H.R.H. the Duke of. 

 Pace, S., Esq. 

 Pearse, Major A. 

 Rothschild, Hon. W. 

 Shackleton, Sir E., c.v.o. 

 Sherborn, C. Davies, Esq. 

 Smith, Dr. T. P. 

 Woodward, Dr. A. Smith. 



All the volumes and maps have been catalogued, press- 

 marked, and put in their places ; whilst 1,401 volumes have 

 been bound in 731, and one has been repaired. 



The extent of the collection on the 31st of December was 

 40,998 volumes, 5,786 maps, and 695 photographs (not including 

 those in the Owen Collection of Drawings, etc.). 



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 2,953 title-slips have been written, 224 re- 

 written, and 3,951 revised (independently of those prepared for 

 printing). 



There are now, on a rough estimate, 89,772 volumes (ex- 

 clusive of continuations and minor separata) and 6,140 maps 

 in the whole building. 



The number of visits paid to the General Library during 

 the year by students and others (irrespective of the btaff and 

 persons to whom the use of a key is granted) was 1,947. 



The printing of the Catalogue was proceeded with, and the 

 work at the end of the year stood as follows : — 



No. of sheets passed for press (A— RIBB) - - 212 



No. of title-slips set up in type (A— RIBE) - - 48,173 



