20*' ACCOUNTS, ETC., OP THE BRITISH MUSEUM. 



IX.— PROGRESS made in the Arrangement and 

 Description of the Collections, and Account 

 OF Objects added to them in the Year 1905 

 (Bloomsbury). 



Department of Printed Books. 



I. Arrangevient. — The works added to the collection during 

 the past year have, as far as possible, been placed on the 

 shelves of the Library according to the system of classifica- 

 tion adopted in the Museum. 



The press-marks, indicating their respective localities, have 

 been marked on the inside and affixed to the back of each 

 volume. 



The total number of these press-marks amounts to 

 78,589 ; in addition to which 41,476 press-marks have been 

 altered in consequence of changes and re-arrangements 

 carried out in the Library ; 39,794 labels have been affixed 

 to books and volumes of newspapers, and 109,893 obliterated 

 labels have been renewed. 



The process of attaching third-marks to the books in the 

 New Library, with the view of accelerating their delivery 

 to readers, has been continued; 15,657 books have been 

 thus marked during the year, and the corresponding altera- 

 tions, amounting to 91,471, have been carried out in the 

 General and Hand Catalogues ; and 1,199 index-slips have 

 been written for London Newspapers. 



The work of collecting together and re- arranging the 

 Incunabula in glazed cases has been completed. Future 

 acquisitions will be arranged on the same system. 



The number of stamps impressed upon the articles received 

 has been 405,154. 



2,819 presses of books and newspapers have been dusted in 

 the course of the year. 



II. Catalogues. — (a) Cataloguing.— '^d, Sol titles have 

 been written (the term "title" applying equally to a main- 

 title and to a cross-reference). Of these, 35,576 were written 

 for the General Catalogue, 2,684 for the Map Catalogue, and 

 11,591 for the Music Catalogue. 



(6) PHw^iw^r.— 34,693 titles and 988 index-slips for the 

 General Catalogue, and 4,802 for the Map Catalogue have 

 been prepared for printing during the year; 34,992 titles 

 and 990 index-slips for the General Catalogue, 7,825 titles 

 for a Catalogue of British Newspapers, 8,489 titles for 

 a Catalogue of the " Thomason Tracts," and 15,245 titles for 

 the Music Catalogue have been printed. 



