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The printing of the Catalogue has been continued, and the 

 work at the end of the year stood as follows : — 



No. of sheets passed for press - - - 66 



No. of title-slips (A — Endl) set up in type - 15,714 



The permanent card-catalogue has been mounted as far as 

 the end of sheet 61, and the work of transferring to it 

 the press-marks and other memoranda has been nearly 

 completed. 



A set of sheets of the Catalogue (as far as printed ofif), 

 stamped with index letters showing in which Department 

 the various works are to be found, has been supplied to each 

 Department. 



The number of visits paid to the Library by Students and 

 others during the year (irrespective of the staff and persons 

 to whom the use of a key is granted) was 955. 



E. Ray Lankester, 



Director. 



British Museum (Natural History), 

 20 February 1901. 



