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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 3,105 title-slips have been written, 134 re- 

 written, and 3,560 revised (independently of those prepared for 

 printing). 



There are now, on a rough estimate, 93,435 volumes (ex- 

 clusive of continuations and minor separata) and 6,210 maps 

 in the whole building. 



The number of visits paid to the General Library during 

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

 persons to whom the use of a key is granted) was 2,279. 



Donations have been received from a great number of 

 Museums, Academies, and other corporate bodies, as well as 

 from the following personal donors : — 



Maiden, J. H., Esq. 

 Migeod, F. W. H., Esq. 

 Morgan, Mons. J. de. 

 Oakenfull, J. C, Esq. 

 Owen, Mrs. E. and the Rev. R. 

 Sherborn, C. D., Esq. 

 Stock, Mons. P. V. 

 Whitaker, W., Esq. 

 Woodward, H. B., Esq. 



The printing of the Catalogue was proceeded with, and the 

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



Number of sheets passed for press (A — STY) - - 256 

 Number of title-slips set up in type (A— SWITZ) - 58,162 



Lord Sudeley. 

 Bather, Dr. F. A. 

 Balch, E. S., Esq. 

 Deprez, Mons. G. 

 Glen, J., Esq. 

 Gude, G. K., Esq. 

 Harmer, Dr. S. F. 

 Hopkinson, J., Esq. 

 Madrolle, Mons. C. 



Index Generum et Specierum Animalium. 



During the year considerable progress has been made with 

 this Index, under Mr. C. Davies Sherborn's charge, and some 

 18,000 slips have been compiled and incorporated. 



Daily inquiries from members of the staff and students 

 have been satisfied, whilst the foreign correspondence has 

 greatly increased. 



The extremely scarce paper by Faure-Bignet, " Sur les 

 Belemnites," 1819, was secured by Mr. Sherborn, and added to 

 the Library of the Geological Departmeiit. Several other rare 

 works were acquired for the General Library, including a copy 

 of J. B. Blank's " Naturalien-Cabinett in dem Minoriten- 

 sogenannten Franciscaner-Kloster zu Wiirzburg," 1795. 



In co-operation with Mr. L. B. Prout, a bibliographic " Note 

 on Fischer de Waldheim's ' Oryctographie du Gouvernement de 

 Moscou,' &c.," was published in the " Annals and Magazine of 

 Natural History," Ser. VIII., vol. xi., 1913. Much other biblio- 

 graphic work has been done, and is available in MS., including 

 the dates of issue of the various parts of the publications of 

 the " Musee d'Histoire Naturelle," Paris. 



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