20 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM. 



20,000 slips have been laid down to form 8 volumes of the 

 temporary Subject Index, 1911, &c., in use in the Reading- 

 Eoom. 



Map Catalogue. — 2,683 titles have been written for this 

 Catalogue, and 1,476 title-slips have been incorporated into 

 each of three copies of it. This incorporation has rendered 

 it necessary to remove and re-insert 897 title-slips in each copy 

 and to add to each copy 1-4 new leaves. 



Music Catalogue. — 11,145 titles have been written for the 

 Music Catalogue, and 18,648 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 24,970 title- 

 slips in each copy and to add to each copy 548 new leaves. 



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

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

 35, .379 have been so mounted and 30,765 have been incorporated 

 in their proper order. 



Catalogue of Books lorinted in the XV th Century. — 

 Part III. of this Catalogue, containing descriptions of the 

 books printed in the remaining towns of Germany, in German- 

 speaking Switzerland and in Austria-Hungary, together with 

 an Index to Parts I.-IIL, and a typographical map, was 

 published by the Trustees in December 1913. 



Guide to the Exhibition in the King's Libra.ry. — A revised 

 edition of this Guide was issued in July 1913. 



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

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

 11,484, including 3,245 volumes of newspapers. In conse- 

 quence of the frequent adoption of the plan of binding twa 

 or more volumes in one, the number of volumes returned 

 was 9,433. In addition to this, 915 volumes have been 

 repaired in the binders' shops. 



Besides this, the following binding work has been done in 

 the Library itself : — 4,177 volumes have been repaired, 1,58(> 

 cleaned and polished, 200 broadsides have been bound in guard - 

 books, and 3,340 volumes of reports, parts of periodicals, fee, 

 have been bound in a light style of binding. 



The following maps, charts, «Sz;c., have also been bound or 

 mounted during the year : — Thirteen atlases and 190 volumes 

 of the 6-inch and 25-inch Ordnance Survey have been bound ; 

 in addition, 230 general maps have been mounted on linen in 

 1,255 sheets, and 862 maps have been mounted on cards in 

 1,058 sheets. 



48,258 numbers of Colonial Newspapers have been folded 

 into 1,124 parcels, and 1,004 parcels have been tied up and 

 labelled. 



54 volumes of the General Catalogue have been broken up 

 and re-bound in 76 new volumes. 77 columns have been re-laid, 

 owing to the accumulation of titles under certain headings, as 

 well as 150 columns of reprinted headings, in each of the 



