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Loans of Lantern Slides. 



2,133 lantern slides were issued on loan (6,878 in 1934, 2,943 in 1933 

 and 2,834 in 1932), a return to more normal activity after the exceptional 

 demand in 1934 for slides for illustrating lectures on the Codex Sinaiticus. 



Publications. 



The sales of pubHcations were 



:— 











1932 



1933 



1934 



1935 



Catalogues and major publications 



Guide Books 



Postcards, monochrome and 



coloured 



Reproductions 



6,100 

 16,000 



469,600 

 20,250 



5,950 

 18,068 



429,184 

 18,666 



5,870 

 15,594 



426,731 

 17,296 



6,671 

 13,866 



461,223 

 19,876 



The decrease in the number of Guide Books sold may be accounted for 

 by the reconstruction of certain galleries which has falsified their indica- 

 tions of the positions of objects. 



The chief works issued during the year 1935 were : — - 



General Catalogue of Printed Books in the British Museum, 



Vol. X Baon-Bart 



Vol. XI Bart-Baye. 



Vol. XII Baye-Belg. 

 Fragments of an Unknown Gospel. 

 Greek and Roman Portrait Sculpture. 

 Catalogue of the Hebrew and Samaritan MSS. Part IV. 

 Catalogue of Books printed in the XVth Century, Part VII (Italy, 



conclusion) . 

 Mount Sinai MS. of the Bible, 4th edition. 

 New Gospel Fragments. 

 Ur Excavations : Texts. II. Archaic Texts. 

 British Museum Quarterly, five parts. 



" Greek and Roman Portrait Sculpture," by R. P. Hinks, is the first of 

 a projected new type of Guide Books, being small and well-illustrated 

 handbooks to their subjects. 



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

 General Catalogue, amounted to £10,358 (£9,556 in 1934). 



Buildings. 



The reconstruction of the Northern Galleries, referred to in the Report 

 for 1934, has in 1935 continued to impede access to the King Edward VII 

 Galleries, though the lift from the Main Entrance Hall to the Upper Floor 

 has greatly reduced the time and fatigue involved in visiting them. 

 Provision has been made for opening the North Entrance in the course 

 of 1936. A smaller improvement much appreciated by elderly and infirm 



