38 ACCOUNTS, ETC. OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM. 



Department of Oriental Printed Books and 

 Manuscripts. 



Cataloguing and Arrangeinent. — The numbers of the 

 sheets of the various Oriental Catalogues sent to press in 

 1908 are : — Hebrew MSS., 10^ sheets ; Hindustani Accessions, 

 18 sheets ; Sanskrit Accessions, 2^ sheets ; Tamil Books, 

 20 sheets. 



The numbers of Titles written for the Catalogues are : — 

 Arabic, 75; Armenian, 3; Assamese, 33 ; Avestan, 13; Baby- 

 lonian, 5 ; Baluchi, 2 ; Bengali, 310 ; Burmese, 504 ; Chinese, 732 ; 

 Coptic, 4 ; Ethiopic and Amharic, 27; Gujarati, 40; Hebrew 

 and Aramaic, 277 ; Hindi, 324 ; Hindustani, 660 ; Javanese, 9 ; 

 Kanarese, 442 ; Khasi, 2 ; Kurdish, 4 ; Lepcha, 2 ; Lushai, 4 ; 

 Malayalam, 50 ; Marathi, 27 ; Mongolian, 8 ; Naga, 6 ; Oriya, 66 ; 

 Pahlavi, 14; Pali, 103; Panjabi, 47; Persian, 1,564; Prakrit, 29 ; 

 Pushtu, 5; Sanskrit, 813 ; Santali, 8; Sindhi, 17; Sinhalese, 188 ; 

 Syriac, 40 ; Tamil, 637 ; Telugu, 122 ; Tibetan, 4 ; Turkish, 112. 



One hundred and ninety-six Arabic MSS., 55 Hebrew MSS., 

 and 29 Sinhalese MSS. have been fully catalogued. 



Short descriptions of 139 MSS. have been entered in the 

 Descriptive List, the Register, and the Classed Inventory. 



One hundred and nine MSS. (ff. 14,149) have been folioed. 



Binding. — The numbers of Printed Books and MSS. sent to 

 the binders are : — Arabic Books, 30 ; Chinese and Japanese 

 Books, 1 90 ; Hebrew Books, 26 ; Persian, Turkish and 

 Hindustani Books, 203 ; Sanskrit and other Indian Books, 308 ; 

 Syriac Books, 2 ; Tibetan Books, 25 ; Pamphlets, 136 ; 

 MSS., 179. 



Students. — The number of Students working in the 

 Students' Room attached to the Department during the year is 

 2,270. The number of Oriental Printed Books consulted in the 

 Department is 5,584, and of those used in the Reading Room 

 1,521. The number of Oriental MSS. consulted in the 

 Students' Room is 4,219. 



Photography. — One hundred and seventy-one applications 

 have been made to photograph books and MSS. 



Additions. — The number of volumes and pamphlets added 

 to the Department during the year is 4,099, of which 3,960 are 

 Printed Books and 139 are MSS. 



Of the Printed Books 1,959 were bought ; 1474 were received 

 under the India Copyright Act ; 88 were received under the 

 Colonial Copyright Act ; and 439 were presented. Of the MSS. 

 125 were bought and 14 presented. 



