20 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM. 



IX.—PROGRESS made in the Arrangement and 

 Description of the Collect-ions, and Account 

 OF Objects added to them in the Year 1907 

 (Bloomsbury). 



Department of Printed Books. 



I. Arrangement. — 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 

 68,952 ; in addition to which 109,054 press-marks have been 

 altered in consequence of changes and re-arrangements 

 carried out in the Library ; 25,419 labels have been affixed 

 to books and volumes of newspapers, and 130,965 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, and is now completed ; 

 45,747 books have been thus marked during the year, and 

 alterations to correspond, amounting to 192,188, have been 

 carried out in the General and Hand Catalogues ; 3,047 index- 

 slips have been written for London Newspapers. 



The number of stamps impressed upon the articles received 

 has been 420,123. 



3,710 presses of books and newspapers have been dusted in 

 the course of the year. 



II. Catalogues. — Cataloguing. — 46,311 titles have been 

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

 and to a cross-reference) for the General Catalogue and for 

 the Catalogues of Maps and Music. 



Printing. — 30,883 titles and 512 index-slips for the 

 General Catalogue, 2,145 for the Map Catalogue, and 15,507 

 for the Music Catalogue have been prepared for printing 

 during the year; and 31,198 titles and 885 index-slips for the 

 General Catalogue, and 2,145 for the Map Catalogue have 

 been printed. 



Incorporation. — General Catalogue.— '30,698 title-slips 

 and 870 index-slips have been incorporated into each of three 

 copies of this Catalogue. This incorporation has rendered 



