20 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEITM. 



IX. — PROGRESS made in the Arrangement ani> 

 Description of the Collections, and Account 

 OF Objects added to them in the Year 1904- 

 (Bloomsbury). 



Department of Printed Books. 



I. Arrangement. — The works added to the collection during, 

 the past year have, as far as possible, been placed on the 

 shelves of the Library according to the system of classifica- 

 tion adopted in the Museum. 



The press-marks, indicating their respective localities, ha.ve 

 been marked on the inside and affixed to the back of each 

 volume. 



The total number of these press-marks amounts to 

 74,308 ; in addition to which 40,884 press-marks have been 

 altered in consequence of changes and re-arrangements 

 carried out in the Library ; 27,894 labels have been affixed 

 to books and volumes of newspapers, and 103,871 obliterated 

 labels have been renewed. 



The process of attaching third-marks to the books in the- 

 New Library, with the view of accelerating their delivery 

 to readers, has been continued ; 13,549 books have been 

 thus marked during the year, and the corresponding altera- 

 tions, amounting to 89,710, have been carried out in ther 

 General and Hand Catalogues ; 4,346 volumes of country 

 newspapers have also been numbered, and 6,326 index-slips 

 have been written for London and Country Newspapers. 



The work of collecting together and re- arranging the 

 Incunabula in glazed cases has been continued. 



The number of stamps impressed upon articles received 

 has been 431,532. 



3,682 presses of books and newspapers have been dusted in 

 the course of the year. 



II. Catalogues. — (a) Cataloguing. — 47,183 titles have 

 been written (the term "title" applying equally to a main- 

 title and to a cross-reference). Of these, 33,436 were written 

 for the General Catalogue, 2,318 for the Map Catalogue, and 

 '11,429 for the Music Catalogue. 



(6) Printing. — 33,431 titles and 1,034 index-slips for the 

 General Catalogue, 7.825 titles for a Catalogue of British 

 Newspapers, 8,489 titles for a Catalogue of the " Thomason 

 Tracts," and 15,245 for the Music Catalogue have been pre- 

 pared for printing during the year ; while 33,121 title-slips 

 and 742 index-slips for the General Catalogue have been 

 printed. 



