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Readers have now at their disposal a Subject Index of all 

 modern works added to the Library between January, 1881, 

 and December, 1905. The total number of entries in the four 

 volumes of the work amounts to 206,400. 



(c) Incorporation. — General Catalogue. — 35,655 title- 

 slips and 873 index-slips have been incorporated into each 

 of 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 47,251 

 title-slips in each copy and to add to each copy 1,007 new 

 leaves. 



The system of fortnightly incorporation of accessions 

 to the Library has been carried out with perfect regularity 

 during the past year. 



Hand Catalogues. — The number of new entries made 

 in the Hand Catalogue of " Academies " was 306 ; in that 

 of "Periodical Publications," 592; in that of Maps and 

 Charts, 469 ; in that of Music, 1,058 ; in that of London 

 Newspapers, 2,885 ; and in that of Directories, 978. 



{d) Map Catalogue. — 2,347 titles have been written for the 

 Map Catalogue, and 2,890 title-slips have been incorporated 

 into each of three copies of it. This incorporation has 

 rendered it necessary to remove and re-insert 8,120 title-slips 

 in each copy and to add to each copy 292 new leaves. 



(e) Music Catalogue. — 9,409 titles have been written for 

 the Music Catalogue, and 10,070 title-slips have been incorpo- 

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

 has rendered it necessary to remove and re-insert 18,860 title- 

 slips in each copy of it and to add to each copy 407 new leaves. 



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

 title-slips, mounted on cards, are arranged in order of press- 

 marks, about 27,400 have been so mounted and about 112,500 

 have been incorporated in their proper order. 



(^) Catalogues of Books of Reference in the Reading Room, 

 — The additions and alterations in each of the four 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 substitution of new for earlier editions, have been made : 

 the number of such additions amounts to 55. 



Additions have also been made to the collection of books 

 in the Galleries of the Reading Room b}^ 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 84. 



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

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



