100 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM. 



General Library. 



The additions to the General Library during the past year 

 have been : — 



By purchase - - _ -385 volumes. 

 By donation - _ - 611 volumes, 57 maps, and 



39 photographs. 



Total - - 996 volumes, 57 maps, and 

 39 photogrfiphs. 



All the volumes and maps have been catalogued, press- 

 marked, and put in their places, while 515 volumes have 

 been bound in 333, 15 have been repaired, and 2 maps 

 have been mounted. 



The extent of the collection on the 31st December was 

 33,924 volumes, 5,599 maps, and 2G3 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 1,819 title-slips have been written, 94 re- 

 written, and 2,256 revised. 



There are now, on a rough estimate, 80,099 volumes 

 (exclusive of continuations and minor separata) and 

 5,844 maps in the whole building. 



The Notes on the Books, MSS., and Drawings in the 

 Museum were completed and incorporated in Yol. I. of " The 

 History of the Collections." 



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 — Lai) - 131 



No. of title-slips set up in type (A — Lee) - 31,407 



Vol. II. of the Catalogue (67i sheets), comprising the 

 letters E to K, was issued in May. 



Seven sets of sheets 121-130 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. 



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 1,055. 



