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it necessary, in order to maintain as far as possible tlie 

 alphabetical arrangement, to remove and re-insert 37,979 

 title-slips and 399 index-slips in each copy and to add to each 

 copy 812 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 283 ; in that 

 of " Periodical Publications," 355 ; in that of Maps and 

 Charts, 415 ; in that of Music, 1,994 ; in that of London 

 Newspapers, 3,047 ; and in that of Directories, 692. 



Map Catalogue. — 3,123 titles have been written for the 

 Map Catalogue, and 2,914 title-slips have been incorporated 

 into each of three copies of it. This incorporation has 

 rendered it necessary to remove and re-insert 5,916 title-slips 

 in each copy and to add to each copy 283 new leaves. 



Music Catalogue. — 12,221 titles have been written for 

 the Music Catalogue, and 3,754 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 7,320 title- 

 slips in each copy of it and to add to each copy 111 new leaves. 



Shelf Catalogue. — For this Catalogue, in which the title- 

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

 marks, 38,400 have been so mounted and 101,000 have been 

 incorporated in their proper order. 



Catalogues of Books of Reference in the Reading Room. 

 — During the year the Books in the Reference Library have 

 been rearranged, and many alterations and additions have 

 been made in the collection. A Catalogue of the books on 

 the ground-floor and in the two galleries of the Reading Room 

 is now in preparation. 



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

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

 13,635, including 4,399 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 10,820 ; in addition to which 122 volumes have been 

 repaired in the binders' shops. 



Besides this, the following binding work has been done 

 in the Library itself: — 7,663 volumes have been repaired, 

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

 4,136 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 : — 77 atlases and 52 volumes of the 

 25-inch Ordnance Survey have been bound ; 214 sheets of 

 the 1-inch Ordnance Survey have been mounted on linen, 

 and 299 Ordnance Survey Indexes on cards; in addition, 



