22 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM. 



Map Catalogue. — 2,851 titles have been written for tliis 

 Catalogue, and 1,858 title-slips have been incorporated into 

 each of three copies of it. This incorporation has rendered 

 it necessary to remove and re-insert 1,459 title-slips in each 

 copy and to add to each copy 22 new leaves. 



Music Catalogue. — 7,170 titles have been written for this 

 Catalogue, and 10,768 title-slips have been incorporated into 

 each of the two copies of it. This incorporation has rendered 

 it necessary to remove and re-insert 10,973 title-slips in each 

 copy and to add to each copy 100 new leaves. 



8 keif Catalogue. — For this Catalogue, in which the title- 

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

 37,440 have been so mounted and 25,205 have been incorporated 

 in their proper order. 



Catalogue of Books printed in the XV th Century. — 

 Progress has been made with Part IV. of this Catalogue, 

 containing descriptions of the books printed at Subiaco, Pome, 

 and Venice. 



Handlist of Sale Catalogues. — A Handlist of Sale Cata- 

 logues, chiefly of booksaies, has been in preparation during the 

 year, and part of it is now in print. 



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

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

 17,115, including 4,891 volumes of newspapers. In conse- 

 quence of the frequent adoption of the plan of binding two 

 or more volumes in one, the number of volumes returned 

 was 11,341. In addition to this, 475 volumes have been 

 repaired in the binders' shops. 



Besides this, the following binding work has been done in 

 the Library itself: — 4,204 volumes have been repaired, 11,630 

 cleaned and polished, and 3,183 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 : — 20 atlases and 86 volumes of the 

 6-inch and 25-inch Ordnance Survey have been bound ; in 

 addition, 124 parts of the 1-inch Ordnance Survey and 181 

 general maps have been mounted on linen in 1,148 sheets, and 

 428 maps have been mounted on cards in 457 sheets. 



46,621 numbers of Colonial Newspapers have been folded 

 into 1,194 parcels, and 1,395 parcels have been tied up and 

 labelled. 



99 volumes of the General Catalogue have been broken up 

 and re-bound in 164 volumes. 121 columns have been re-laid, 

 owing to the accumulation of titles under certain headings, as 

 well as 484 columns of reprinted headings, in each of the 

 three interleaved copies of the General Catalogue. 18 volumes 

 of the Music Catalogue have been re-bound in 19 new 

 volumes. 



IV. Reading Room Service. — The number of volumes re- 

 placed in the General Library after use in the Reading Poom 



