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Eighteen Charters and Rolls have been repaired, and 

 three hundred and twenty-seven Charters have been 

 mounted. 



Twenty-three Catalogues and Registers, and forty-two 

 printed Books of Reference, have been bound or repaired. 



13. Verification. — The several collections have been verified 

 by the shelf -lists. Seven new hand-lists and a list of Record 

 Publications have been made. 



14. Miscellaneous. — One hundred and thirteen MSS. have 

 been placed and entered in the hand-lists and shelf -lists. 



Eight hundred and twenty-six Charters and Rolls, and 

 ninety-nine Seals, have been numbered and placed. 



Three hundred and eighty-one MSS. and Printed Books 

 have been stamped, with a total of 17,884 impressions. 



Four hundred and fifty-eight MSS. have been folio'd, con- 

 taining 82,114 folios. 



The number of MSS. delivered in the Reading Room 

 is 2,132 ; and of those consulted in the Department, 

 28,985. 



The number of Charters, and Rolls delivered to readers 

 is 613. 



The number of Students working in the Department during 

 the year is 8,197. 



Acquisitions. — The numbers of Manuscripts and Docu- 

 ments acquired during the year are, — 



General Collections of MSS. - - - - 157 

 Rolls and Charters ----- 808 



Detached Seals and Casts - - - - 117 

 Papyri -------- 13 



Among them are : — 



A few small fragments belonging to the papyrus-roll of 

 the first century, B.C. (now in the Museum), containing the 

 orations of Hyperides against Demosthenes and for Lycophron, 

 which was discovered in 1847. Presented by Oscar C. 

 Raphael, Esq. 



Thirteen documents in Greek, written on papyrus, con- 

 sisting of [leases, receipts, etc., two dated in a.d. 93 and 

 A.D. 213 respectively, and the rest being of the second 

 century ; obtained, with one exception, from the cartonnages 

 of a mummy-case in Egypt. 



Wax-tablet, containing memoranda of expenses in Greek, 

 inscribed with a stilus ; first century. 



Wax Diptycha, or writing tablets, forming a school- 

 boy's exercise-book ; perhaps of the second century. On one 

 leaf are inscribed with a stilus, in uncial characters, two 

 iambic Greek lines, the first of which occurs elsewhere 

 among the fragments of Menander. These lines were first 



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