ACCOUNTS, &C. OF BRITISH MUSEUM. 



2. Of these pamphlets 3,281 have been arranged, and placed on the shelves ; with the 

 addition of part of those placed last year, 4,295 have been marked. 



3. Want of space caused a large nmnber of books to accumulate without arrangement. 

 The additional room at the West end of the Library having been lately completed, one hun- 

 dred presses have been immediately fitted up, on which books are now being placed and 

 arranged. 



4. The re-marking of entries of duplicates in the King's Collection has been almost 

 completed; 7,317 of such duplicates have been examined, and the new marks put to the 

 corresponding entries. 



6. The number of presses dusted and cleaned amounts to 1,158. 



II. Cataloguing. — a.) New General Catalogue. — 1. The number of titles prepared for 

 this Catalogue amounts to 54,341. 



2. In each of the three interleaved copies of the first printed volume of it, 744 titles have 

 been entered. 



3. The number of entries marked m each of these three copies is 5,474. 



4. In the hand Catalogue there have been 6,394 entries made. 



b.) Old Catalogue. — The number of new titles written for this Catalogue amounts to 

 9,894. The number of entries made in two copies of it is 9,627, besides 2,118 re-tran- 

 scribed, and 1,573 erased and re-entered. 



■c.) Maps. — The number of Maps catalogued amounts to 1,244. 



d.) Music. — For the Musical Collection 4,631 titles have been vfritten. 



III. Additions. — 1. The number of volumes added to the Library amounts to 9,656; of 

 which 865 have been presented, 2,699 received by copyright, and 6,092 purchased. 



2. The number of parts of volumes is 7,684 ; of which 36 have been presented, 3,747 

 received by copyright, and 3,901 purchased. 



3. The whole forms a total of 17,340 articles, of which an account is taken; of these, 

 6,934 are complete works; 926 of which have been presented, 2,381 received by copyright, 

 and 3,627 purchased. 



4. The Maps and Charts amount to 284; of which 93 have been presented, 18 received 

 by copyright, and 173 purchased. 



5. The Musical works are 550, comprised in 750 volumes or parts ; 724 of which have 

 been received by copyright, and 26 purchased. 



IV. Binding. — The number of volumes bound amounts to 3,720, besides 116 volumes of 

 Music. That of volumes repaired is 306, and of maps mounted, 4,518. 



V. Reading Room Service. — 1. The number of books returned to the shelves of the 

 General Library from the Reading Rooms is 142,179 ; to the Royal Library, 22,408 ; to the 

 closets, where they were kept for the use of readers from day to day, 78,470 ; to the 

 shelves in the Reading Rooms about 116,400; altogether 359,457 volumes; on an average 

 1,230 a day. 



2. The number of readers is 71,494; the Reading Rooms having been kept open 291 

 days, the average number of readers is therefore 245 a day. Hence it appears that each 

 reader consults, on an average, more than five printed volumes. 



Department of Natural History. 

 Mineralogical Branch. 



Since the last return, the assemblage of materials furnished by the collections purchased 

 of Dr. Mantell and Mr. Hawkins has continued to give uninterrupted occupation in 

 determining, cataloguing and placing a great portion of the objects of which those 

 collections respectively consist. In the same manner has Captain Cautley's Collection 

 from the part of the Sivalick or Sub-Himalayan range, situate between the rivers Jumna 

 and Sutlej, engrossed much of the Keeper's time. Many of its more interesting osseous 

 remains have been worked out of the very hard sand-stone in which they are usually found 

 embedded. Among those worthy of more particular mention are the remains of the gigantic 

 Sivatherium, an extinct animal so called by Mr. Falconer and Captain Cautley, who consider 

 it as belonging to an order forming a passage from the Pachydermata to the Ruminantia, — 

 a question upon which some light will probably be thrown, by laying open several portions 

 of the skulls still concealed by the rock. These and several other specimens of that 

 collection have been figured and described by the above-named gentlemen, in the Asiatic 

 Researches and the Journal of the Asiatic Society, such as bones of two distinct species of 

 Hippopotamus, Camel, Bear, etc.; but the bulk of the assemblage remains undetermined, 

 and will require long-continued examination. It chiefly consists of the osseous remains, 

 mostly embedded in, and incrusted with, hard sand-stone, of Pachyderms and Ruminants. 

 By far the greater portion of the former belongs to the Proboscidean tribe, among which 

 there undoubtedly are several distinct species of the Elephant and Mastodon. There are, 



moreover. 



