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il necessary to remove and re-insert 6,594 title-slips in each 

 copy and to add to each copy 165 new leavesr'. 



Music Catalogue. — 16,612 titles have been written for 

 the Music Catalogue, and 13,474 title-slips have been incorpo- 

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

 rendered it necessary to remove and re-insert 26,517 title-slips 

 in each copy and to add to each copy 1,222 new leaves. 



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

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

 *marks, 30,371 have been so mounted and 29,190 have been 

 incorporated in their proper order. 



Catalogue of Books printed in the XVth Century. — 

 Part II, of this Catalogue, containing descriptions of the 

 books printed at Augsburg, Nuremberg, and twenty other 

 towns in Germany was published by the Trustees in March, 

 1912. 



Catalogue of the Fifty Manuscrvpts and Printed Books 

 bequeathed to the British Museum by Alfred H. Huth. — This 

 Catalogue was issued in March, 1912. 



Catalogue of Printed Music published between 1487 and 

 1800. — This Catalogue was issued in July, 1912. 



Guide to the use of the Reading Room. — This Guide was 

 issued in September, 1912. 



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

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

 13,704, including 3,496 volumes of newspapers. In conse- 

 quence of the frequent adoption of the plan of binding two 

 oi- more volumes in one, the number of volumes returned 

 was 10,759. In addition to this, 1,850 volumes have been 

 repaired in the binders' shops. 



Besides this, the following binding work has been done in 

 the Library itself : — 3,183 volumes have been repaired and 

 0,540 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 : — Six atlases and 243 volumes of the 

 6-inch and 25-inch (.Jrdnance Survey have been bound, and 

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

 300 general maps have been mounted on linen in 1,681 sheets, 

 and 112 maps have been mounted on cards in 229 sheets. 



45,251 numbers of Colonial Newspapers have been folded 

 into 948 parcels, and 903 parcels have been tied up and labelled. 



Ten volumes of the Blue Copy, 11 volumes of the Red 

 Copy, and 13 volumes of the Green Copy of the General 

 Catalogue, have been broken up and re bound in 53 new volumes. 

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

 titles under certain headings, as well as 362 columns of 

 reprinted headings, in each of the three interleaved copies of 

 the General Catalogue. Four volumes of the Music Catalogue 

 have been re-bound in seven new volumes. 



