102 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM. 



All the volumes and maps have been catalogued, press- 

 marked, and put in their places, while 717 volumes have 

 been bound in 269, 148 have been repaired, and 1 map has 

 been mounted. 



The extent of the collection on the .31st of December was 

 86,901 volumes, 5,666 maps, and 383 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 2,372 title-slips have been written, 341 re- 

 written, and 3,264 revised. 



There are now, on a rough estimate, 84,086 volumes 

 (exclusive of continuations and minor separata) and 5,951 

 maps in the whole building. 



The printing of the Catalogue was resumed, and the work 

 at the end of the year stood as follows : — 



No. of sheets passed for press (A — Linnseus) - 144 

 No. of title-slips set up in type (A — Loew) - 33,578 



A preprint of the titles of the works under the heading 

 " Linnseus " was prepared and issued in time for the bicen- 

 tennial celebrations of the birth of Linnseus. It includes 

 the titles of such other of his works as are represented in the 

 Department of Printed Books, but of which there are no 

 copies in the Natural History Museum. 



The identification of the Drawings in the Owen Collection 

 is in progress. 



The number of visits paid to the Library during the year 

 by students and others (irrespective of the Stafi') was 1,816. 



Index Museum and Morphological Collections. 



In the Entrance Hall a coloured cast of the Tile-fish, a 

 fish which for several years after the heavy gales of the early 

 part of the year 1882 was supposed to be extinct, has been 

 placed in one of the centre cases, with a map showing the 

 very limited distribution of the fish. In the same case have 

 been added series of animals preserved in formalin, illus- 

 trating the nature of the food of the Plaice, Turbot, Sole, 

 and Gurnard. 



The series of specimens illustrating the life history of the 

 Eel has. been increased by an evenly graded series of Lepto- 

 cephalus of the Freshwater Eel from the Mediterranean, and 

 another of larvae of the Conger Eel from the same region, 

 also by a mass of Elvers from the Severn and some young 

 Eels from the Thames. 



The specimens of Cephalodiscus nigrescens and C. liodg- 

 soni dredged in the Antarctic Ocean by the " Discovery," 



