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BRITISH MUSEUM 



Studio. 



The output of the Photographic Studio is shown in the following 

 table : — 



Negatives ... 

 Prints 



Lantern Slides 



Photostats 



Lantern Slides issued on loan 



1931 



3,501 

 9,449 

 1,122 

 22,020 

 2,653 



1932 



3,234 



7,844 



545 



24,938 



2,834 



1933 



3,374 

 9,642 

 1,075 

 21,695 

 2,943 



Publications. 



The sales of the publications were* :- 





1931 



1932 



1933 



Catalogues and major pubHcations 



8,200 



6,100 



5,950 



Guide Brooks 



20,050 



16,000 



18,068 



Postcards, monochrome and 









coloured 



553,600 



469,600 



429,184 



Reproductions 



23,500 



20,250 



18,666 



The chief works issued during the year were : — 



General Catalogue of Printed Books, Vols. V (Anne-Aris) and VI 

 (Aris-Asmo) ; and excerpts Aristophanes and Aristotle. 



Subject Index of Modern Books, 1926-30. 



Catalogue of Additions to the MSS, 1916-20. 



Catalogue of the Greek, Etruscan and Roman Paintings and Mosaics. 



Facsimile of the Manuscript of Al-Kitab Al-Bari of Kali by Ismail 

 Ibn Kasim Al-KaU. 



Excavations at Ur, 1932-33 by C. L. WooUey (Reprint from Anti- 

 quaries Journal). 



British Museum Quarterly, four parts. 



The proceeds of sales, including volumes of the new edition of the 

 General Catalogue, amounted to £8,566* (£9,442 in 1932.) 



A new and larger bookstall in the Entrance Hall enables the pub- 

 lications to be displayed to better advantage. The bookstall in the 

 Northern Galleries has been closed in consequence of the structural 

 alterations taking place in the Egyptian Rooms. 



Departments. 



A re-grouping of the Oriental Ceramics, Sculpture, Metalwork and 

 Antiquities in general, together with Oriental Paintings, Prints and 

 Drawings, was effected during the year in a Department of Oriental 

 Antiquities with a Sub-Department of Ethnography, the Department 



These figures are for the financial year 1933-4, 



