DEPARTMENT OP PRINTED BOOKS (mAPS). 25 



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, &c., in the Sub- 

 Department of Maps, together with an Account of the 

 Accessions made during the year 1891. 



I. — Cataloguing and Arrangement. 



4,000 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 622 Maps, Charts, and Atlases, 

 and to 3,532 titles ; and 2,343 slips were written for the Hand- 

 Catalogue. 



3,151 title-slips of Accessions (Parts xvi., xvii., and xviii.) 

 were sent to the printer, and 22| sheets of proof of Acces- 

 sions were collated, sent for press, and printed off. 



379 Maps, in 3,111 sheets, and 42 Atlases were sent to be 

 mounted, bound, and lettered ; and 76 volumes and 521 Maps 

 have been returned ; of the former, 62 were bound, 11 lettered, 

 and 3 repaired ; of the latter, 403 were mounted on jaconet and 

 union, and 118 on cards. 



95 sheets of the English Admiralty Charts, 574 sheets of the 

 " Hydrographie Frangaise," 52 sheets of the English 1-inch 

 Ordnance Survey, and 3 sheets of Counties, on the scale of 2 

 miles to 1 inch, have been mounted on union; 13 volumes of the 

 Ordnance Survey of Towns, 2 volumes of the 6-inch Ordnance 

 Survey, and 35 volumes of the 25-inch Ordnance Survey have 

 been bound. 



2,570 printed Accession titles (Parts xvi. and xvii.) 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 989, the number of Maps 1,829, making 

 a total of 2,818. 



The number of stamps impressed on Maps obtained by pur- 

 chase was 1,579, on those received by presentation 306, making 

 a total of 1,885. 



Besides the students who have consulted Maps and Atlases 

 in the Reading Room during the year, 162 visitors have been 

 admitted to the Map Room for the purpose of geographical 

 research. 



II. — Additions. 



264 Maps, in 2,927 sheets, 10 Atlases, and 3 parts of Atlases 

 have been received under the Copyright Act ; 35 Atlases, and 

 270 Maps, in 854 sheets, have been obtained by purchase; 



0.108. 7 volumes. 



