42 accounts, etc., of the british museum. 



Department of Prints and Drawings. 

 1. — Arrangement and Cataloguing. 



The prints and drawings contributed to the Nelson 

 exhibition in the King's Library have been removed and 

 been replaced by an exhibition of the series of portrait 

 drawings by Henri and Rudolf Lehraann, recently acquired. 



A selection has been made of prints and drawings of all 

 schools and periods, to be reproduced for the proposed loan 

 collection of 240 lantern glides, and the slides have been 

 completed and delivered, 



The work of sorting and arranging in wrappers the 

 collection of portraits of English royal personages be- 

 queathed by Lord Cheylesmore has been completed, and 

 references to it have been inserted in the index of English 

 Portraits. 



The collection of fifteenth and sixteenth century printed 

 books illustrated with woodcuts, presented by Mr. William 

 Mitchell in 1904, has been definitely arranged with a few of 

 similar character otherwise acquired, the volumes being 

 grouped, so far as difi'erence of size would permit, in the 

 alphabetical order of their places of printing. A list of the 

 books in this class, 85 in number, of which the Department 

 of Printed Books does not possess copies, has been drawn up 

 and sent to the keeper of that Department in order that 

 the titles and references may be inserted in the Library 

 Catalogue. 



All the Italian drawings belonging to the Malcolm and 

 Vaughan collections have been incorporated with the main 

 series in a single alphabetical order. 



The collection of etchings and lithographs by J. McNeill 

 Whistler has been mounted, lettered, and arranged in eight 

 solander cases. 



The mounting and lettering of the etchings by Charles 

 Meryon have been completed, and the collection has been 

 arranged in seven solander cases. 



The collection of prints after English masters has been 

 examined, and all woodcuts, the subjects of which were 

 drawn on the blocks by the original artists, have been 

 removed and formed into a separate series of English 

 woodcuts arranged under the designers' names in two 

 portfolios. 



The collection of unmounted German etchings has been 

 arranged in two portfolios. 



The collection of etchings and woodcuts by Robert Bryden 

 Las been arranged in a portfolio. 



