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'Catalogue, and 15,138 for the Music Catalogue have been 

 printed. 



: Progress has been made with the printing of the Supple- 

 ment to the General Catalogue, which will contain the titles 

 of all such books as were added to the Library during the 

 years 1882-1899, but not incorporated in the Catalogue during 

 ihe process of printing. Nine printed parts, containing the 

 headings from H to M, have been printed in the course of 

 the year. 



Volumes II. and III., containing the letters F~Z, of the 

 " Subject Index of the Modern Works added to the Library of 

 the British. Museum in the years 1881-1900," have been 

 printed and published during the year. 



(c) Incorporation. — (1) General Catalogue. — 29,797 title- 

 ■slips and 638 index-slips have been incorporated into each 

 of the three copies of this Catalogue. This incorporation has 

 rendered it necessary, in order to maintain as far as possible 

 the alphabetical arrangement, to remove and re-insert 89,910 

 title-slips in each copy and to add to each copy 953 new 

 leaves. 



In addition to this incorporation 899 columns have been 

 Temounted and relaid in each of the three interleaved copies 

 of the Catalogue ; a process rendered necessary by the 

 accumulation of titles under certain headings. 



The system introduced in 1889 of fortnightly incorpora- 

 tion of accessions to the Library has been carried out with 

 perfect regularity during the past year. 



— (2) Hand Catalogues. — The number of new entries made 

 in the Hand Catalogue of " Academies " was 368 ; in that 

 of " Periodical Publications," 524 ; in that of " Maps and 

 Charts," 504 ; and in the Hand Catalogues of London and 

 Country Newspapers, 1,681 and 426 respectively. 



(d) Map Catalogue. — 2,762 titles have been written for the 

 Map Catalogue and 1,317 title-slips have been incorporated 

 into one copy of it. This incorporation has rendered it 

 necessary to remove and re-insert 3,409 title-slips in that 

 copy and to add thereto 85 new leaves. 



(e) Music Catalogue. — 9,654 titles have been written for 

 the Music Catalogue, and 2,795 title-slips have been incorpo- 

 rated into each of two copies of it. This incorporation 

 has rendered it necessary to remove and re-insert 6,702 title- 

 slips in each copy and to add to each copy 60 new leaves. 



(/) Shelf Catalogue. — For this Catalogue, in which the 

 title-slips, mounted on cards, are arranged in order of press- 

 marks, about 21,100 have been so mounted and about 130,600 

 have been incorporated in their proper order. 



(ff) Catalogues of Books of Reference in the Reading Room. 

 — The additions and alterations in each of the three inter- 

 leaved copies of the Catalogue of Books of Reference in the 



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