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Tol. IV. (S-Z) of the catalogue of English Drawings has 

 been completed and published and the preparation of a 

 supplementary volume commenced. 



The preparation of a full critical and descriptive catalogue 

 of the collection of Japanese Woodcuts has been commenced. 



The preparation of a catalogue of the collection of 

 Early Italian Engravings has been continued and nearly 

 completed in MS. 



The etchings by C. Meryon, J. F. Millet and Jongkind, 

 and the lithographs by J. Dupre and H. Daumier have been 

 marked off in the new catalogues by Loys Delteil. 



Titles have been written for articles in the " Gazette des 

 Beaux Arts," " Zeitschrift fiir Bildende Kunst," and other 

 foreign periodicals for the catalogue of books of reference. 



An index has been drawn up of names of artists repre- 

 sented in the collection of prints of ornament. 



Slips have been written for indexes to prints in the illus- 

 trated copies of Byron's " English Bards," etc., and Edwards's 

 " Anecdotes," and for the collection of photographs presented 

 by the National Photographic Record. 



The preparation of slips for an index to the Banks col- 

 lection of shopbills, etc. has been continued. 



Registration. — 5874 items have been entered in the 

 Register of Acquisitions. 



Stamping and Mounting. — 5630 duplicates removed 

 from the Franks collection of foreign bookplates have been 

 stamped as such, and will in due course be returned to the 

 executor. 



6903 prints, drawings, etc., recently acquired, have been 

 impressed with the departmental stamp and references to the 

 Register. 



The work of preparing, specially repairing and mounting 

 a selection from the Cheylesmore collection of mezzotint 

 portraits has been continued. 1260 "ordinary" mezzotints 

 belonging to the same collection have been fixed in wrappers 

 for their better preservation. 



Seventeen drawings by Tintoretto have been repaired 

 and mounted on sunk mounts with special borders. 



One hundred and fifty miscellaneous drawings have been 

 prepared and mounted on sunk mounts, and one hundred 

 and seventy-seven German woodcuts have been mounted in 

 the ordinary manner. 



Students, — The total number of visitors admitted to the 

 Print Room during the year ending 31 December 1907 was 

 8590, showing an increase on those for 1906 notwithstanding 



