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Map Catalogue. — 3,001 titles have been written for the 

 Map Catalogue, and 5,428 title-slips have been incorporated 

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

 it necessary to remove and re-insert 16,662 title slips in each 

 copy and to add to each copy 706 new leaves. 



Music Catalogue. — 16,420 titles have been written for 

 the Music Catalogue, and 1,654 title-slips have been incorpo- 

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

 rendered it necessary to remove and re-insert 3,016 title-slips 

 in each copy and to add to each copy 53 new leaves. 



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

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

 marks, about 25,500 have been so mounted and about 37,200 

 have been incorporated in their proper order. 



Catalogue of Books of Reference in the Reading Room. — 

 Part I. of this Catalogue, containing the alphabetical list of 

 books entered under the authors' names, has been returned for 

 press. About one-half of Part II., which contains the subject- 

 index, is in the hands of the printer, and is already in type as 

 far as the letter F. 



Catalogue of Books printed during the XVth Century. — 

 The preparation of Part II. of this Catalogue has made con- 

 siderable progress, the titles of all books produced at Augsburg, 

 Nuremberg, and Speier being now ready for printing. 



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

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

 16,457, including 4,471 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 12,701. In addition to this, 159 volumes have been 

 repaired in the binders' shops. 



Besides this, the following binding work has been done in 

 the Library itself : — 3,130 volumes have been repaired ; 178 

 broadsides, &c., have been inserted in guard-books, and 6,482 

 volumes of reports, parts of periodicals, &;c., have beeii bound 

 in a light style of "binding. 



The following maps, charts, &;c., have also been bound or 

 mounted during the year : — 9 atlases and 144 volumes of the 

 25-iach Ordnance Survey have been bound, and 413 sheets of 

 the 1-inch Ordnance Survey, and 6 Admiralty Charts have been 

 mounted on linen ; in addition, 206 general maps have been 

 mounted on linen in 341 sheets, and 214 maps have been 

 mounted on cards in 603 sheets. 25 boxes have been made to 

 contain maps, and 6 boxes have been repaired. 



34,091 numbers of Colonial Newspapers have been folded 

 into 622 parcels, which have been tied up and labelled pre- 

 paratory to being bound. 



Seventeen volumes of the Blue Copy, 19 volumes of the Red 

 Copy, and 26 volumes of the Green Copy of the General 



