BRITISH MUSEUM 



Micro- films. 



Much increased use has been made of the apparatus recently installed 

 for the making of micro-films, 707 printed books and MSS. having been 

 copied by this process during the year, as compared with 50 in 1936. 



The photographic equipment both of the Studio and of the Depart- 

 ments has been brought up to date. 



Publications. 



The sales of publications were :— 



Catalogues and major publications 



Guide Books 



Postcards, monochrome and 



coloured 

 Reproductions 



1934 



5,870 

 15,594 



426,731 

 17,296 



1935 



6,671 

 13,866 



461,223 



19,876 



1936 



5,843 

 18,034 



579,757 

 16,712 



193-; 



7,604 

 20,612 



639,117 

 19,249 



The chief works issued during the year 1937 were : — 



General Catalogue of Printed Books in the British Museum, 

 Vol. XV Bern-Bibl. 



Vol. XVII Bible : Part II. New Testament. 



Vol. XVIII Bible : Part III. Appendix. 



Vol. XIX Bibl-Blac. 



Vol. XX Blac-Bobc. 



Catalogue of the Coins of Ancient India. By John Allan. 



Handbook to the Pottery and Porcelain of the Far East. 

 R. L. Hobson. 



By 



Handbook to the Gulbenkian Loan of Egyptian Sculpture. 



Prints in the Dotted Manner and other Metal- cuts of the XV Cen- 

 tury. By Campbell Dodgson. 



Guide to the Exhibitions in the Prmts and Drawings Gallery, 

 1937 : from Watteau to Wilkie, and The Treatment of Water 

 in European and Oriental Art. 



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

 General Catalogue, amounted to £14,911 (£11,527 in 1936). 



Buildings. 



Tlie North-West Quadrant of the Iron Library, the North Library 

 and other rooms attached to the Department of Printed Books have 

 been reconstructed, and are now in use ; the North Library was reopened 

 to the public on 25th October. It is anticipated that work on the recon- 

 struction of the North-East Quadrant will begin soon after April 1938. 



