•BRITISH MUSEUM (NATURAL HISTORY). 99 



Supplementary volume of the Monograph of Mosquitoes, 

 hy F. V. Theobald. 



Monograph of Tsetse-Flies, by E. E. Austen. 



Catalogue of Corals, Vol. IV., by H. M. Bernard. 



Monograph of the Mammalian Fauna of Pikermi, by 

 A. S. Woodward. 



First Keport on Economic Zoology. 



General Library. 

 The additions to the General Library during the past year 

 have been : — 



By purchase , - - 410 volumes. 



By donation - > - 527 volumes, G89 maps, and 



52 photographs. 

 By transfer from other 



Departments - - 37 volumes. 



Total - - 974 volumes, 689 maps, and 

 52 photographs. 



All the volumes and maps have been catalogued, press- 

 marked, and put in their places, while 485 volumes have 

 been bound in 342, one volume has been repaired, and 2 maps 

 have been mounted. 



165 volumes were transferred in January to the section of 

 Economic Zoology, so that the extent of the collection on 

 the 31st December was 30,866 volumes, 5,401 maps, and 

 200 photographs (not including those in the Owen Collection 

 of Dravvings, &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 1,858 title-slips have been written, 55 re- 

 written, and 1,939 revised. 



There are now, on a rough estimate, 77,313 volumes 

 (exclusive of continuations and minor separata) and 

 5,811 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 - - - 101 



No. of title-slips (A — Hern) set up in type - 24,238 



The permanent card-catalogue has been mounted as far as 

 the end of sheet 97, and the work of transferring to it 

 the press-marks and other memoranda has been effected 

 as far as the end of sheet 77. 



A set of sheets of the Catalogue (up to and including 

 sheet 93), stamped with index-letters showing in which 

 Department the various works are to be found, has been 

 supplied to each Department. 



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