30 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM. 



A Volume of Facsimiles of Ancient Charters from the 

 Conquest to the close of the twelfth century is in progress, 

 and thirty-eight Charters have been described. 



8. Catalogue of Bindinqs. — A Catalogue of selected 

 bindings of MSS. in the Department, by Mr. W. H. James 

 Weale, is in progress. 



9. Binding. — Three hundred and eight Additional and six 

 Egerton MSS., newly acquired, and one hundred and fifty- 

 five MSS. of the old collections have been bound or repaired. 



Seventy-one Printed Books have been bound. 

 One hundred and twenty-seven Documents have been 

 glazed. 



10. Verification. — The several collections of MSS., the 

 Stowe Charters and some drawers of Select Charters have 

 been verified. 



11. Stamping, folioing, and placing. — One hundred and 

 thirty-one Additional MSS., three hundred and fifty-seven 

 Charters and Rolls, and one hundred and sixty Books of 

 Reference have been stamped with a total of 18,388 

 impressions. 



Sixty Additional MSS. have been placed, press-marked, 

 and entered in the Hand-lists and Shelf-lists. 



Nine hundred and fourteen Charters and Rolls have been 

 placed, and entered in the inventory. Numbers have been 

 written on the backs of three hundred and thirty-two 

 Charters. 



One thousand and thirty MSS. have been folio'd, with a 

 total of 246,238 folios. Slip-indexes of Charters have been 

 folio'd, with a total of 4,373. 



A new extended shelf-list of Closets and Tables has been 

 compiled and copied. The comparison of hand-lists and 

 shelf-lists is in progress. 



12. Consultation of MSS. — The number of MSS. consulted 

 in the Students' Room attached to the Department is 32,903, 

 and of those delivered to the Reading Room 647. 



The number of Charters and Rolls consulted by the 

 Students is 3,225. 



The number of Students working in the Department during 

 the year is 9,487. 



Magna Charta has been exhibited to 3,125 visitors in the 

 Department. 



13. Books of Reference. ~ One hundred and fifty-one 

 newly-acquired volumes and parts have been catalogued. 

 The third copy of the Catalogue is nearly entered up, and 

 the whole is under revision. 



