BRITISH MUSEUM (NATURAL HISTORY). 105 



A Guide to Great Game Animals. 

 A Guide to the Insect Gallery. 



A Guide to British Seed -Plants and Ferns, by Dr. A. B. 

 Rendle. 



General Library. 



The additions to the General Library during the past year 

 have been : — 



By purchase - . _ 458 volumes. 



By donation - _ - 532 volumes, 8 maps, and 



19 photographs. 

 By transfer from other 



Departments - - 45 volumes. 



Total - - 1,035 volumes, 8 maps, and 

 19 photographs. 



All the volumes and maps have been catalogued, press- 

 marked, and put in their places, while 1,019 volumes have 

 been bound in 493, 121 have been repaired, and 4 maps have 

 been mounted. 



The extent of the collection on the 31st December was 

 35,842 volumes, 5,615 maps, and 334 photographs (not includ- 

 ing those in the Owen Collection of Drawings, &c.)- 



The accessions to the Departmental Libraries have also 

 been catalogued as they came in, and duplicate transcripts of 

 the titles have been returned with the books. 



Altogether 1,937 title-slips have been written, 82 re- 

 written, and 2,370 revised. 



There are now, on a rough estimate, 82,930 volumes 

 (exclusive of continuations and minor separata) and 5,900 

 maps in the whole building. 



The printing of the Catalogue remained in abeyance 

 during the year, but preparations for its resumption are 

 being made. 



The works of travel and other non-serial publications 

 were re-arranged and re-press-marked on the elastic system, 

 in the course of which the press-marks were altered in more 

 than 4,000 volumes and on nearly 6,000 title-slips. 



Seven sets of sheets 137 to 140 of the Catalogue have been 

 stamped with index-letters showing in which Department 

 the various works are to be found, and copies have been 

 distributed to each department. 



The compilation of a List of Books, fee, published by or 

 relating to the Natural History Departments of the British 

 Museum, has been completed. 



The following papers dealing with Works in the Museum 

 have been published in various journals during 1906 : — 



" On the Dates of Publication of the Natural History 

 portions of the ' Encj'-clopedie Methodique.' " By C. Davies 

 Sherborn and B. B. Woodward. (Annals and Mag. Nat. Hist., 

 Ser. VII., Vol. vii., pp. 577-82.) 



