08 A.CCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM. 



Illustrations of the Botany of Captain Cook's Voyages, by 

 Sir Joseph. Banks and Dr. Solander, with determinations 

 by James Britten. Part III. 



Catalogue of Tertiary Mollusca, Part II., by G. F. Harris. 



A Monograph of the Mammalian Fauna of Pikermi, by 

 A. S. Woodward. 



A Guide to the Coral Gallery, by F. J. Bell and R. 

 Kirkpatrick. 



General Library. 



The additions to the General Library during the past year 

 have been : — 



By purchase - - - 327 volumes and 2 maps. 

 By donation - - - 513 volumes, 104 maps, and 



43 photographs. 

 By transfer from other 



Departments - - 13 volumes. 



Total - - 858 volumes, 107 maps, and 

 43 photographs. 



AH the volumes and maps have been catalogued, press- 

 marked, and put in their places, whilst 410 volumes have 

 been bound in 208, and 47 volumes have been repaired. 



The extent of this collection on the 81st December was 

 30,057 volumes, 4,712 maps, and 148 photographs (not 

 including those in the Owen Collection of Drawings, &c.). 



The accessions to the Departmental Libraries have also been 

 catalogued as they came in, and duplicate transcripts of the 

 titles have been returned with the books. 



Altogether 1,677 title-slips have been written, 79 re- 

 written, and 1,938 revised. 



There are now, on a rough estimate, 76,065 volumes 

 (exclusive of minor separata) and 5,789 maps in the whole 

 building. 



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 _ _ - 81 



No. of title-slips (A — Gent) set up in type - 19,252 



The permanent card-catalogue has been mounted as far as 

 the end of sheet 77, and the work of transferring to it 

 the press-marks and other memoranda has been nearly 

 completed. 



