DEPARTMENT OF PRINTED BOOKS (MAPS). 23 



Sub-Department of Maps, Charts, Plans, and 

 Topographical Drawings. 



Professor Douglas has the honour to lay before the Trustees 

 the following Report of Progress made in the work of 

 Cataloguing and Arranging Maps, Charts, etc., in the Sub- 

 Department of Maps, together with an Account of the 

 Accessions made during the year 1890. 



I. — Cataloguing and Arrangement. 



3,874 titles (including both main-titles and cross-references) 

 were written for the Catalogue of Maps and Charts during 

 the year. 



Press-marks were given to 523 Maps, Charts, and Atlases, 

 and to 3,276 titles ; and 1,738 slips were written for the Hand 

 Catalogue. 



2,398 title-slips of Accessions (Parts xiv. and xv.) were sent 

 to the printer, 31f sheets of Proof of Accessions were col- 

 lated, and 34f sheets of Proof and Revise were sent for 

 Press and printed off. 



363 Maps in 2,576 sheets, and 62 Atlases were sent to be 

 mounted, bound, and lettered ; and 75 volumes and 323 Maps 

 have been returned ; of the former, 48 were bound, 23 lettered, 

 and 4 repaired ; of the latter, 188 were mounted on jaconet and 

 union, and 135 on cards. 



67 sheets of the English Admiralty Charts, 323 sheets of the 

 " Hydrographie Fran^aise," 4 sheets of the Spanish Admiralty 

 Charts, 34 sheets of the English 1-inch Ordnance Survey, and 

 108 sheets of the 4 miles to 1 inch Diagrams of the Ordnance 

 Survey have been mounted on union. 42 sheets of the 

 Austrian Survey, on the scale of 1*75,000, have also been 

 mounted on union. 



Five vols, of the Ordnance Survey of Towns, and 23 vols, 

 of the 6-inch Ordnance Survey have been bound. 



Two Celestial and two Terrestrial 18-inch Globes, belonging 

 to the King's Library, have, with their stands and accessories, 

 been repaired and relacquered. 



The stand and meridian of the 4-foot Celestial Globe, by 

 Coronelli, have also been repaired and renovated. 



3,981 printed Accession titles (Parts xiii., xiv., and xv.) have 

 been incorporated into three copies of the Printed Catalogue 

 of Maps. 



The number of Atlases returned to their shelves from the 

 Reading Room was 1,081, the number of Maps 1,699, making 

 a total of 2,780. 



The number of stamps impressed on maps obtained by pur- 

 chase was 1,311, on those received by presentation 361, making 

 a total of 1,672. 



Besides the students who have consulted Maps and Atlases 

 0.81. B 4 in 



