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The acquisitions of the year have been entered in the 

 registers. 



6. Catalogue of the Stowe MSS. — The description of the 

 Stowe Collection is completed, and the index has been begun. 

 The copy will shortly be sent to the printers, and it is hoped 

 that the volume will be issued at an early date. 



7. Catalogue of Seals. — The second volume of the Catalogue 

 has been printed and issued. The descriptions of Heraldic 

 Seals P — E have been revised and sent to the printer. The 

 sheets B — Y of the third volume have been revised. 



One hundred and seventeen detached Bullae and casts have 

 been arranged and registered. 



8. Catalogues of Charters and Rolls. — The final revision 

 for the press of the General Index of names and subjects 

 in the several collections of Charters and Rolls acquired 

 before the year 1882 is in progress. 



Additional Charters 29,856-31,672, acquired in 1887, have 

 been described. 



Slip-descriptions of additional Charters and Rolls 28,524- 

 30,000, forming Vol. X. of the Catalogue of Additional 

 Charters, have been bound and placed in the Students' Room 

 in continuation of the series. 



9. Catalogue of Papyri. — Sheets S — 2 D of the Catalogue 

 have been revised; the Introduction is written, indices pre- 

 pared, and the plates arranged. 



A third edition of the Papyrus CXXXI. verso, ('A^rjvatwv 

 iroXiTtia ) has been printed and issued. 



Papyrus CXXXVII., containing a long and hitherto un- 

 known medical treatise, and eight other Papyri, newly 

 acquired, have been transcribed, and ninety provisionally 

 described. 



Papyrus CXXXV. ('HpcuSou fxifxiafx^oi) has been published in 

 facsimile. 



30. Arrangement of Papers. — Additional MSS. 34,110- 

 34,112, 34,127-34,134, 34,147-34,178, 34,185-34,189, 34,195, 

 34,212-34,215, 34,225, 34,240-34,243, acquired during 1892, 

 have been arranged. 



11. Catalogue of Sloane MSS. — Four hundred and fifty- 

 two MSS., Nos. 649-1,100, have been indexed from the MSS. 



12. Binding, etc. — Eighty-one MSS. recently acquired, and 

 two hundred and sixteen MSS. of the old collections, have 

 been bound or repaired. 



Two hundred and twenty-seven Stowe MSS. have been 

 bound. 



Fifty-two Papyri have been mounted and glazed, and 

 fifty-nine have been bound. 



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