22 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM. 



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

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

 10,168, including 3,362 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 8,409 ; in addition to which, 24 pamphlets have been 

 separately bound, and 27 volumes have been repaired at the 

 binders. 



Besides this, the following binding work has been done 

 in the Library itself: — 7,388 volumes have been repaired; 

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

 4,197 volumes of reports, 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 : — 27 atlases, 43 volumes of the 

 25-inch and 6 volumes of the 6-inch Ordnance Survey have 

 been bound ; 54 sheets of Ordnance Survey Diagrams, 352 

 sheets of j^dmiralty Charts and 292 general maps have been 

 mounted on linen and 72 maps mounted on cards. 



27,393 numbers of Colonial Newspapers have been folded 

 into 490 parcels, and 373 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 778,059 ; to the King's Library, 24,714 ; to the 

 Grenville Library, 1,192 ; to the Map Room, 3,624 ; to the 

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

 of readers, 574,799 ; and to the Oriental Department, 142 ; 

 making a total amount of 1,382,530 volumes supplied to 

 readers during the year. 



The number of readers during the year was 200,035, giving 

 an average of over 664 daily, the room having been open on 

 301 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 25,511, giving a daily average of over 84, the 

 room having been open on 301 days. The number of volumes 

 replaced after use was 48,020, giving a daily average of almost 

 two volumes to each reader, not reckoning those, chiefly 

 Parliamentary Papers, taken from the shelves of the News- 

 paper Room by the readers themselves. 



Map Room. — 388 visitors have been admitted to the Map 

 Room for the purpose of special geographical research. 



V. Accessions. — (a) 42,855 volumes and pamphlets (includ- 

 ing 53 atlases, &c. and 1,505 books of music) have been added 

 to the Library in the course of the year, of which 21,766 

 (including the bequest of the late Mr. Henry Spencer Ashbee) 



