2^ 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 

 11,742, including 4,0-34 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 8,395 ; in addition to which, 36 pamphlets have been 

 separately bound, and 97 volumes have been repaired at the 

 binders. 



Besides this, the following binding work has been done 

 in the Library itself : — 30,746 volumes have been furbished 

 and repaired ; 470 broadsides, &c. have been inserted in 

 guard-books and 3,453 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 : — i2 atlases and 104 volumes of the 

 25-inch Ordnance Survey have been bound ; 357 sheets of 

 the 1-inch Ordnance Survey, 223 Admiralty Charts and 

 323 general maps have been mounted on linen and 253 maps 

 mounted on cards. 



41,061 numbers of Colonial Newspapers have been folded 

 into 612 parcels, and 735 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 852,452; to the King's Library, 26,150; to the 

 Grenville Library, 1,317; to the Map Room, 3,688; to the 

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

 of readers, 621,969 ; and to the Oriental Department, 123 ; 

 making a total amount of 1,505,699 volumes supplied to 

 readers during the year. 



The number of readers during the year was 211,244, giving 

 an average of over 699 daily, the room having been open on 

 302 days ; with an average of over seven volumes daily 

 for each reader, not reckoning those taken from the shelves 

 of the Reading Room by the readers themselves. 



N'ewspaper Room. — The number of readers during the 

 year has been 23,617, giving a daily average of over 78, the 

 room having been open on 302 days. The number of volumes 

 replaced after use was 46,714, giving a daily average of over 

 154 volumes, and of almost two volumes to each reader, 

 not reckoning those, chiefly Parliamentary Papers, taken 

 from the shelves of the Newspaper Room by the readers 

 themselves. 



Map Room. — 309 visitors have been admitted to the Map 

 Room for the purpose of special geographical research. 



V. Accessions. — (a) 28,140 volumes and pamphlets (includ- 

 ing 38 atlases, &c. and 1,632 books of music) have been added 

 to the Library in the course of the year, of which 5,924 



