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Map Catalogue. — 4,191 titles have been written for the 

 Map Catalogue, and 1,144 title-slips have been incorporated 

 into each of three copies of it. This incorporation has rendered 

 it necessary to remove and re-insert 2,802 title-slips in each 

 copy and to add to each copy 165 new leaves. 



Music Catalogue. — 13,815 titles have been written for 

 the Music Catalogue, and 15,019 title-slips have been incorpo- 

 rated into each of two copies of it. This incorporation has 

 rendered it necessary to remove and re-insert 27,690 title-slips 

 in each copy of it and to add to each copy 581 new leaves. 



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

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

 marks, 30,194 have been so mounted and 57,250 have been 

 incorporated in their proper order. 



Catalogue of Books of Reference in the Reading Room. — 

 A new and enlarged edition of the Catalogue of Books in the 

 Reference Library, comprising those on the ground- floor and 

 in the two galleries of the Reading Room, is in course of" 

 preparation. 



Catalogue of Books printed during the XVth Century. — 

 Part I. of this Catalogue, dealing with block books and with 

 books printed at Mainz, Strassburg, Bamberg, and Cologne,, 

 has been completed and published. Part II., which will com- 

 plete the descriptions of the German series, is in course of 

 preparation. 



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

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

 13,012, including 4,322 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 11,958 ; in addition to which 90 volumes have beerj,. 

 repaired in the binders' shops. 



Besides this, the following binding work has been done in 

 the Library itself :— 3,722 volumes have been repaired; 276 

 broadsides, &c., have been inserted in guard-books, and 5,421 

 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: — 38 atlases, 80 volumes of the 

 25-inch Ordnance Survey and 6 volumes of the 5-feet scale 

 Ordnance Survey of Towns have been bound, and 48 Ordnance 

 Survey Indexes have been mounted; in addition, 314 general 

 maps have been mounted on linen, and 154 on cards, and 

 25 portfolios and 28 boxes have been made to contain the 

 maps. 



32,743 numbers of Colonial Newspapers have been folded 

 into 594 parcels, and 587 such parcels have been tied up and 

 labelled preparatory to being bound. 



