22: ACCOUNTS, ETC., OJ?' THE BRITISH MUSEUM. 



Additions have also been made to the collection of books 

 in the Galleries of the Reading Room by the incorporation of 

 new works of interest and importance, and by the substitution 

 of new for earlier editions. The number of such additions 

 amounts to 86. 



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

 pamphlets sent to be bound in the course of the year was 

 11,715, including 4,210 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 

 was 9,631 ; in addition to which 29 volumes have been 

 repaired in the binders' shops. 



Besides this, the following binding work has been done 

 in the Library itself : — 6,871 volumes have been repaired ; 

 155 broadsides, &c., have been inserted in guard-books, and 

 4,448 volumes of reports, parts of periodicals, &c., have been 

 bound in a light style of binding. 



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

 mounted during the year : — 59 atlases and 40 volumes of the 

 25-inch Ordnance Survey have been bound ; 107 maps have 

 been mounted on linen, and 18 on cards ; and one portfolio, 

 6 cases and 79 boxes have been made to contain maps. 



29,787 numbers of Colonial Newspapers have been folded 

 into 521 parcels, and 516 such parcels have been tied up and 

 labelled preparatory to being bound. 



35 volumes of the Blue Copy of the General Catalogue, 

 2 volumes of the Red Copy and 11 of the Green Copy have 

 been broken up and rebound in 90 new volumes. Also, 309 

 columns and 1,703 titles have been re-laid in each of the 

 three interleaved copies of the General Catalogue : a process 

 rendered necessary by the accumulation of titles under 

 certain headings. 



Four copies of the Newspaper Catalogue, containing 538 

 columns, have been laid down and bound in 6 volumes each ; 

 while one copy has been interleaved with cartridge paper and 

 bound in 11 volumes for the Hendon Repository. 



ly. Reading Room Service. — The number of volumes 

 replaced in the General Library after use in the Reading 

 Room was .872,274; in the King's Library, 25,387; in the 

 Grenville Library, 1,627 ; in the Map Room, 5,685 ; in the 

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

 of readers, 694,197; and in the Oriental Department, 393; 

 making a total amount of 1,599,562 volumes supplied to 

 readers during the year, exclusive of those to which the 

 readers have personal access on the shelves of the Reading 

 Room. 



The number of readers during the year was 214,940, giving 

 an average of over 711 daily, the room having been open on 

 302 days ; with an average of over seven volumes daily 

 for each reader. 



