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changes in this collection by the addition of new works and 

 the exchange of earlier for new editions, have been made y 

 they number 35 in each copy. 



Additions have also been made to the collection of books. 

 in the Galleries of the Reading Room by the incorporation of 

 new works of interest and importance, and by the substitution 

 of new for earlier editions. The number of such additions to 

 each of the two interleaved copies of the Catalogue of this, 

 collection is 111. 



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

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

 12,411, including 3,301 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 9,289; in addition to which, 306 pamphlets have been 

 separately bound, and 142 volumes have been repaired at the 

 binders. 



Besides this, the following binding work has been done 

 in the Library itself : — 4,935 volumes have been repaired ; 

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

 4,964 volumes of reports, time-tables, parts of periodicals, &c., 

 have been formed, in a light style of binding. 



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

 mounted during the year : — 13 atlases and 103 volumes of the 

 25-inch Ordnance Survey have been bound ; 118 sheets of 

 the 1-inch Ordnance Survey, 81 sheets of Admiralty Charts 

 and 410 general maps have been mounted on linen and 304 

 maps mounted on cards. 



33,000 numbers of Colonial Newspapers have been folded 

 into 510 parcels, and 500 such parcels have been tied up and 

 labelled. 



IV. Reading Room Service. — The number of volumes 

 returned to the General Library from use in the Reading 

 Room was 770,109; to the King's Library, 22,367; to the 

 Grenville Library, 1,081 ; to the Map Room, 3,755 ; to the 

 presses in which books are kept from day to day for the use 

 of readers, 538,621; and to the Oriental Department, 214; 

 making a total amount of 1,336,147 volumes supplied to 

 readers during the year. 



The number of readers during the year was 198,566, giving 

 an average of over 655 daily, the room having been open on 

 303 days ; with an average of almost seven volumes daily 

 for each reader, not reckoning those taken from the shelves 

 of the Reading Room by the readers themselves. 



Newspaper Room. — The number of readers during the 

 year has been 25,423, giving a daily average of almost 84, the 

 room having been open on 303 days. The number of volumes 

 replaced after use was 48,735, giving a daily average of almost 

 two volumes to each reader, not reckoning those, chiefly 



