22 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BEITISH MUSEUM. 



Additions have been also made to the collection of books 

 in the Galleries of the Eeading 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 

 amounts to 00. 



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

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

 13,283, including 3,837 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 10,339 ; in addition to which 78 volumes have been 

 repaired in the binders' shops. 



Besides this, the following binding work has been done 

 in the Library itself: — 5,613 volumes have been repaired; 

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

 5,119 volumes of reports, parts of periodicals, &c., have been 

 formed in a light style of binding. 



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

 mounted during the year : — 18 atlases and 43 volumes of the 

 25-iuch Ordnance Survey have been bound ; 80 sheets of 

 the 1-inch Ordnance Survey and 65 general maps have been 

 mounted on linen, and 48 maps mounted on cards ; and 

 1 portfolio made to contain maps. 



34,780 numbers of Colonial Newspapers have been folded 

 into 614 parcels, and 559 such parcels have been tied up and 

 labelled preparatory to being bound, 



IV. Reading Room Service. — The number of volumes 

 replaced in the General Library after use in the Reading 

 Room was 894,627; in the King's Library, 25,897; in the 

 Grenville Library, 1,795 ; in the Map Room, 4,420 ; in the 

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

 of readers, 663,738 ; and in the Oriental Department, 282 ; 

 making a total amount of 1,590,759 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 226,323, giving 

 an average of over 742 daily, the room having been open on 

 305 days ; with an average of over seven volumes daily 

 for each reader. 



Netuspa'per Room. — The number of readers during the 

 year has been 22,053, giving a daily average of 72, the room 

 having been open on 305 days. The number of volumes 

 replaced after use was 56,317, giving a daily average of over 

 184 volumes, and of over two volumes to each reader, 

 not reckoning volumes, chiefly Parliamentary Papers, taken 

 from the shelves of the Newspaper Room by the readers 

 themselves. 



