94 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM. 



The extent of the collection on the 31st December was 

 32,928 volumes, 5,542 maps, and 224 photographs (not includ- 

 ing 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 2,241 title-slips have been written, 75 re- 

 written, and 2,704 revised. 



There are now, on a rough estimate, 78,825 volumes 

 (exclusive of continuations and minor separata) and 

 5,828 maps in the whole buiiding. 



Some Notes on the History of the Collections of the 

 Books, MSS., and Drawings have been compiled and are now 

 in Uie press. 



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 (A — Kend) - 121 



No. of title-slips set up in type (A— Koch) - 29,322 



Volume I. of the Catalogue (G2| sheets), comprising the 

 letters A to D, was issued in July. 



Seven sets of sheets 94-120 of the Catalogue have been 

 stamped with index-letters showing in which Department 

 the various works are to be found, and copies have been 

 supplied to each Department. 



The permanent card-catalogue has been mounted as far as 

 the end of sheet 118, and the work of transferring to it 

 the press-marks and other memoranda has been completed 

 as far as the middle of sheet 79, and partly effected as far as 

 the end of sheet 97- 



The number of visits paid to the Library during the year 

 by Students and others (irrespective of the staff and persons 

 to whom the use of a key is granted) was 857. 



Index Museum and Morphological Collections. 



The bones of the Horse in the preparation set up to show 

 the homology that exists between the skeletal parts of Man 

 and the Horse have been entirely rearticulated in more 

 correct positions than before, and to a large extent relabelled, 

 and the preparation has been removed from the Entrance 



