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the exception of the headings " England," " France," " Ger- 

 many," " Great Britain," " Liturgies," and part of " Bible," 

 the entire Catalogue was either printed or in the press at the 

 end of 1897, while considerable progress has been made in the 

 preparation of all the headings sjoecified. 



Ninety-two manuscript volumes have been prepared and 

 sent to press during the year, and 17 printed parts, repre- 

 senting 120 manuscript volumes, have been delivered by the 

 printer. 



(c) Incorporation. — (1) General Catalogue. — 35,571 title- 

 slips and 736 index-slips have been incorporated into each 

 of the three copies of this Catalogue, This incorporation has 

 rendered it necessary, in order to maintain, as far as possible, 

 the alphabetical arrangement, to remove and re-insert 41,187 

 title-slips in each copy, and to add to each copy 1,152 new 

 leaves ; while, in the preparation of the manuscript volumes 

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

 34,616 title-slips in one copy only. 



The system of fortnightly incorporation, introduced in 

 1889, has been carried out with perfect regularity during the 

 past year. 



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

 the Hand Catalogue of " Academies " was 214 ; in that of 

 " Periodical Publications," 512 ; in that of Maps and Charts, 

 2,205 ; and in the Hand Catalogues of London and of Country 

 Newspapers, 1,100 and 3,626 respectively. 



(cl) Map Catalogue. — 2,687 titles have been written for the 

 Map Catalogue, and 1,017 title-slips have been incorporated 

 into each of the three copies of it. This incorporation has 

 rendered it necessary to remove and re-insert 1,093 title-slips 

 in each copy and to add in each copy 8 new leaves. 



(e) Music Catalogue. — 10,464 titles have been written for 

 the Music Catalogue, and 5,656 title-slips have been incorpo- 

 rated into each of two copies of it. This incorporation has 

 rendered it necessary to remove and re-insert 6,391 title- 

 slips in each copy and to add to each copy 78 new leaves. 



(/) Shelf Catalogue. — For this Catalogue, in which the 

 title-slips, mounted on cartridge paper, are arranged in order 

 of press-marks, about 35,830 have been so mounted, and about 

 147,300 have been incorporated into the boxes. 



{(j) Catalogues of Books of Reference in the Reading Room. 

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

 leaved copies of the Catalogue of Books of Reference in the 

 Reading Room, which are requisite in order to record the 

 changes in this collection by the addition of new works, and the 

 exchange of old for new editions, have been made. The number 

 of additions to each copy has been 26. 



