20 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM. 



X. — PROGRESS made in the Arrangement and Description 

 OF THE Collections, and Account of Objects 

 added to them in the Year 1912 (Bloomsbury). 



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 81,179; 

 in addition to which 161,503 press-marks have been altered, 

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

 re-arrangements carried out in the Library ; 39,005 labels have 

 been affixed to books and volumes of newspapers, and 103,344 

 obliterated labels have been renewed. 



The number of stamps impressed upon articles received is 

 563,410. 



4,682 presses of books and newspapers have been dusted in 

 the course of the year. 



II. CoJ;alogues. — Cataloguing. — 58,741 titles have been 

 written for the General Catalogue and for the Catalogues of 

 Maps and Music. 



Printing. — 36,196 titles and index-slips for the General 

 Catalogue, 3,356 for the Map Catalogue, and 4,194 for the 

 Music Catalogue have been prepared for printing during the 

 year ; and 33,440 titles and index-slips fo]- the General Cata- 

 logue. 1,676 for the Map Catalogue, and 11,732 for the Music 

 Catalogue, have been printed. 



Reprinting. — 426 columns, including the headings Amadis 

 de Gaula (28 columns), Edmund Burke (26 columns), Butler 

 ( 100 columns), Aikin (K; columns), and Wood (99 columns), have 

 been revised and reprinted. 



Incorporation.^General Catalogue. — 36,869 title-slips and 

 index-slips have been incorporated into each of the 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 49,720 title-slips and index-slips 

 in each copy and to add to each copy 734 new leaves. 



The system of fortnightly incorporation of accessions to 

 the Library has been carried out with perfect regularity during 

 the year. 



Map Catalogue. — 2,784 titles have been written for this 

 Catalogue, and 2,655 title- slips have been incorporated into 

 each of three copies of it. This incorporation has rendere/.l 



