20 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM. 



IV. Reading Roo7)% Service. — The number of volumes 

 returned to the General Library from use in the Reading 

 Room has been 868,731 ; to the Royal Library, 21,683 ; to the 

 Grenville Library, 1,606 ; to the Map Room, 3,545 ; to the 

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

 of readers, 518,506; and to the Oriental Department, 5,138; 

 making a total amount of 1,419,159 volumes supplied to 

 readers during the year. The number of readers during the 

 year has been 188,628, giving an average of over 624 

 daily, the room having been open on 302 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. 



Neiuspaper Room. — The number of readers during the 

 year has been 16,375, giving a daily average of 54. The 

 number of volumes replaced after use was 47,252, giving a 

 daily average of nearly three volumes to each reader, not 

 reckoning those, chiefly volumes of Parliamentary Papers, 

 taken from the shelves of the Newspaper Reading Room by 

 the readers themselves. 



il/a|) Room. — 315 visitors have been admitted to the Map 

 Room for the purpose of special geographical research. 



V. Additions. — (a) 26,929 volumes and pamphlets (includ- 

 ing 124 atlases, &c., and 1,355 books of music) have been added 

 to the Library in the course of the year, of which 5,962 were 

 presented, 12,175 received in pursuance of the laws of 

 English copyright, 718 by colonial copyright, 480 by inter- 

 national exchange and 7,594 acquired by purchase. 



(h) 64,285 parts of volumes (or separate numbers of 

 periodical publications and of works in progress) have also 

 been added, of which 2,850 were presented, 37,319 received 

 in pursuance of the laws of English copyright, 202 by 

 colonial copyright, 357 by international exchange and 

 23,557 acquired hj purchase. 



(g) 1,166 maps, in 5,222 sheets, have been added to the 

 collection in the course of the year, of which 626 maps, in 

 775 sheets, were presented; 333 maps, in 3,851 sheets, received 

 under the provisions of the laws of English copyright, 14 

 by colonial copyright, and 193 maps, in 582 sheets, acquired 

 by purchase. 



(<^) 4,922 pieces of music, each complete in itself, have 

 been acquired by copyright during the year. 



(«) The number of newspapers published in the United 

 Kingdom, received under the provisions of the Copy- 

 right Act during the past year, has been 3,315, comprising 

 209,752 single numbers ; 1,239 of these newspapers were 

 published in London and its suburbs ; 1,603 in other parts 



