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The collection of books in the galleries of the Reading 

 Room has continued to receive additions by the incorporation 

 of new works of interest and importance, and the substitution 

 of new for older editions. The number of additions to each 

 of the two interleaved copies of the Catalogue of this collec- 

 tion has been 176. 



III. Binding. — The number of volumes and sets of 

 pamphlets sent to be bound in the course of the year has been 

 17,291, including 2,088 volumes of newspapers. In conse- 

 quence of the frequent adoption of the plan of binding two or 

 more volumes in one, the number of volumes returned 

 has been 8,754 ; in addition to which 284 pamphlets have been 

 separately bound. 762 volumes have been repaired at the 

 binder's, besides which 6,621 volumes have been repaired in 

 the Library, and 964 broadsides, sheets, &c., hare been 

 inserted into guard-books, the plan, tried towards the end of 

 1892, of effecting the slighter repairs in the Library itself 

 having proved eminently satisfactory. 



The following maps, charts, &c., have also been bound or 

 mounted during the year : — 35 atlases, 53 volumes of the 

 Ordnance Survey of towns, 4 volumes of the 6-inch Ordnance 

 Survey and 22 volumes of the 25-inch Ordnance Survey have 

 been bound ; 124 sheets of the 1-inch (and under) Ordnance 

 Survey, 129 English Admiralty charts, and 375 maps, &lc., 

 have been mounted onjaconet, and 317 maps, &c., mounted on 

 cards. 



IV. Reading Room Service.- — The number of volumes 

 returned to the General Library from use in the Reading 

 Room has been 914,343 ; to the Royal Library, 17,520; to the 

 Grenville Library, 1,434 ; to the Map Room, 3,068 ; to the 

 presses in which books are kept from day to day for the use 

 of readers, 462,939 ; and to the Oriental Department 3,511 ; 

 making a total amount of 1,402,815 volumes supplied to 

 readers during the year. The number of readers during the 

 year has been 194,102, giving an average of about 645 

 daily, the room having been open on 301 days ; and an 

 average of over seven volumes daily for each reader, not 

 reckoning those taken from the shelves of the Reading Room 

 by the readers themselves. 



Newspaper Room. — The total number of readers during the 

 year has been 14,747, giving a daily average of 49. The 

 number of volumes replaced after use was 41,328, giving a 

 daily average of nearly three volumes to each reader. 



Map Room. — 208 visitors have been admitted to the Map 

 Room for the purpose of geographical research. 



0,10^ V. Additions.— 



