ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM. 



Department of Oriental Printed Books and 

 Manuscripts. 



Cataloguing and Arrangement. 



The numbers of the sheets of the various Oriental Cata- 

 logues sent to press in 1901 are : — Arabic, 1 sheet ; Chinese 

 (Accessions), 8 sheets ; Coptic MSS., 5 sheets ; Hebrew MSS., 

 8 sheets ; Marathi MSS., 4 sheets ; Sanskrit MSS., 3 sheets ; 

 Sinhalese Books, 7 sheets. 



The numbers of Titles written for the Catalogues are : — 

 Arabic, 532 ; Armenian, 100 ; Assamese, 11 ; Batak, 4 ; Bengali, 

 136 ; Burmese, 547 ; Canarese, 5 ; Chinese, 83 ; Coptic, 2 ; 

 Ethiopic, 25; Georgian, 26; Gujarati, 193; Hebrew, 174; 

 Hindi, 324; Hindustani, 560; Japanese, 291; Javanese, 17 ; 

 Karen, 94; Kashmiri, 1; Malay, 21; Maltese, 5; Marathi, 

 65; Oriya, 32; Panjabi, 85; Persian, 103; Pushtu, 7; San- 

 skrit, 1,586 ; Santali, 1 ; Sindhi, 12 ; Syriac, 24 ; Tamil, 563 ; 



Eighty-three Coptic MSS., 62 Gujarati MSS., 41 Hebrew 

 MSS., 9 Marathi MSS., and 16 Syriac MSS. havo been fully 

 catalogued. 



Short descriptions of 163 MSS. have been entered in the 

 Descriptive List, the Register, and the Classed Inventory. 



One hundred and fifty -three MSS. (ff. 27,739) have been 

 folioed. . 



Binding. 



The numbers of Printed Books and MSS. sent to the binders 

 are: — Arabic Books, 187; Chinese Books, 114; Hebrew Books, 

 64; Sanskrit Books, 250; MSS., 249; Pamphlets, 157. 



Students. 



The number of Students working in the Students' Room 

 attached to the Department during the year is 3,257. The 

 number of Oriental Printed Books consulted in the Depart- 

 ment is 4,584, and of those used in the Reading Room 110. 

 The number of Oriental MSS. consulted in the Students' 

 Room is 6,174. 



Additions. 



The number of works added to the Department during the 

 year is 1,799, of which 1,636 are Printed Books, and 163 are 

 MSS. 



