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of three copies of this Catalogue. This incorporation has 

 rendered it necessary, in order to maintain the alphabetical 

 arrangement, to remove and re-insert 24,923 title-slips and 61 

 index slips in each copy, and to add to each copy 420 new 

 leaves ; while, in the preparation of the manuscript volumes 

 for printing, it has been necessary to remove and re-insert 46,500 

 title-slips in one copy only, and to add thereto 262 new leaves. 

 The system of fortnightly incorporation, introduced in 

 1889 and described in the Annual Report for that year, has 

 been carried out with perfect regularity during the past year, 

 and on the 31st December every available title written for 

 the Catalogue was in the printer's hands. 



(2.) Hand-Catalogues. — The number of new entries made in 

 the Hand-Catalogue of Academies was 187 ; in that of 

 Periodical Publications, 370 ; and in the Hand-Catalogues of 

 London and Country Newspapers, 1,011 and 8,806 respec- 

 tively. The Hand-Catalogue of the Collection of London 

 Newspapers, placed in the Newspaper Room in the White 

 Wing, comprising the London papers of this century, is now 

 practically complete ; while that of the collection of the 

 earlier London and of the country papers, placed in the New 

 Library, is fait approaching completion. 



{d.) Music Catalogue. — 6,054 titles have been written for 

 this Catalogue, and 28,745 titles were sent to the printer and 

 printed off, while, consequently upon alterations made in the 

 Catalogue, 928 title-slips have been removed and re-inserted 

 in each of the two copies. 



(e.) Hebrew Catalogue. — 263 titles have been written for 

 this Catalogue, and 12 sheets have been printed off. 



(/.) Oriental Catalogues. — The number of titles written 

 has been 5,475, of which 564 were for Sanskrit and Pali books ; 

 2,500 for Arabic and Persian ; 130 for Turkish, Armenian, 

 Syriac, &c. ; 331 for Tamil, Telugu, and Canarese, &c. ; and 

 1,950 for Bengali, Hindustani, Gujurati, &c. Three and a half 

 sheets of accessions have been printed for the Catalogue of 

 Marathi books ; 13 sheets for the Catalogue of Arabic books ; 

 17 sheets for the supplementary Catalogue of Sanskrit and Pali 

 books ; and 9 sheets for the Catalogue of Gujurati- books. 



(g.) Japanese Catalogue. — 1,451 titles have been written 

 for this Catalogue. 



{h.) Shelf Catalogue. — For this Catalogue, in which tke 

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

 marks, 31,800 have been arranged, and 16,000 partially 

 arranged, preparatory to incorporation ; and 99,440 have been 

 incorporated into the boxes. 



(i.) Catalogues of Books of Reference in the Reading Rootn. 



— The additions and alterations in each of the three inter- 



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