22 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM. 



Reading Room, which are requisite in order to record the 

 changes in this collection by the addition of new works and 

 the substitution of new for earlier editions, have been made ; 

 they number 48 in each copy. 



Additions have been also made to the collection of books 

 in the Galleries of the Reading Room by the incorporation of 

 new works of interest and importance, and by the substitution 

 of new for earlier editions. The number of such additions ta 

 each of the two interleaved copies of the Catalogue of thi,s 

 collection is 84. 



III. Binding. — The number of volumes and sets of 

 pamphlets sent to be bound in the course of the year was 

 11,985, including 3,828 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 8,551 ; in addition to which, 98 volumes have been 

 repaired at the binders' shops. 



Besides this, the following binding work has been done 

 in the Library itself: — 25,527 volumes have been repaired; 

 513 broadsides, &c. have been inserted in guard-books, and 

 3,879 volumes of reports, parts of periodicals, fcc, have been 

 formed in a light style of binding. 



The following maps, charts, &c., have also been bound or 

 mounted during the year : — 62 atlases and 94 volumes of the 

 25-inch Ordnance Survey have been bound ; 27 sheets of 

 the 1-inch Ordnance Survey, 4 Admiralty Charts and 

 349 general maps have been mounted on linen and 340 maps 

 mounted on cards ; 3 maps have been mounted as rolls, and 

 26 portfolios and 78 boxes have been constructed to contain 

 maps. 



37,663 numbers of Colonial Newspapers have been folded 

 into 666 parcels, and 765 such parcels have been tied up and 

 labelled preparatory to being bound. 



IV. Reading Room Service. — The number of volumes 

 returned to the General Library from use in the Reading 

 Room was 863,741 ; to the King's Library, 26,666 ; to the 

 Grenville Library, 1,412 ; to the Map Room, 3,902 ; to the 

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

 of readers, 632,94.3 ; and to the Oriental Department, 232 ; 

 making a total amount of 1,528,896 volumes supplied to 

 readers during the year, exclusive of those to which the 

 readers have personal access on the shelves of the Reading 

 Room. 



The number of readers during the year was 209,713, giving 

 an average of over 692 daily, the room having been open on 

 303 days ; with an average of over seven volumes daily 

 for each reader. 



Hifewspaper Rooin. — The number of readers during the 

 year has been 23,648, giving a daily average of 78, the room 



