ACCOUNTS, &C. OF BRITISH MUSEUM. 



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

 this Catalogue amounts to 46,037. 



2. In each of the three interleaved copies of the first printed volume of the new Catalooue, 

 1,433 titles have been entered. 



3. The number of entries marked in each of these three copies is 1,168. 



4. In the hand Catalogue 1,714 entries have been made. 



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

 18,750. The number of entries made in two copies of it is 12,219, 4,353 are also re-tran- 

 scribed, and 2,493 erased and re-transcribed. 



c.) Maps. — The number of Maps catalogued amounts to 3,098. 



d.) Music. — For the Musical Collection 9,958 titles have been written. 



III. Additions. — 1. The number of volumes added to the Library amounts to 11,549 ; of 

 which 545 have been presented, 2,039 received by copyright, and 8,965 purchased. 



2. The number of parts of volumes is 6,762 ; of which 78 have been presented, 3,592 

 received by copyright, and 3,093 purchased. 



3. The whole forms a total of 18,311 articles, of which an account is taken; of these, 

 7,922 are complete works; of which 250 have been presented, 2,816 received by copyright, 

 and 4,856 purchased. 



4. The Maps and Charts amount to 453 ; of which 122 have been presented, 51 received 

 by copyright, and 280 purchased. 



5. The Musical works are 1,273 ; of which 63 have been presented, 181 purchased, and 

 1,030, comprised in 1,361 parts or numbers, received by copyright. 



6. The volumes of Newspapers are 79 as to London Newspapers, amounting to 121 distinct 

 publications, and 83 as to Provincial Newspapers, amounting to 243 distinct publications. 



IV. Binding. — The number of volumes bound amounts to 7,803, of which 618 are Music, 

 and 1,848 Pamphlets. That of volumes repaired is 50i), and of Maps mounted, 422. 



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

 General Library from the Reading Rooms is 137,613 ; to the Ptoyal Library, 21,134; to the 

 closets, where they were kept for the use of the readers from day to day, 77,270 ; to the 

 shelves of the Reading Rooms about 117,000; altogether 353,017 volumes; on an average 

 1,196 a day. 



2. The number of readers has been 72,122 ; the Reading Rooms having been kept open 

 295 days, the average number of daily readers has been 244, Hence it appears that each 

 reader consulted, on an average, nearly five books a day. 



Department of Natural History. 



Mineralogical Branch. 



Since the last Return the arrangement of the different collections of this Department lias 

 proceeded without intermission, and many new acquisitions have been duly incorporated 

 and registered. 



The Trustees having been pleased to adopt the Keeper's proposal, according to which the 

 arrangement of the Fossil Mammalia is to commence on the south-east wall of Room VI., 

 to be continued along the southern, western and northern walls of the same room, and from 

 thence to proceed along the northern side of the gallery, until the objects, so arranged, reach 

 Room II., and join the Fossil Saurians in Rooms III. and IV., the Keeper has endeavoured 

 to take the necessary steps to carry out this plan, and has prepared the Osseous remains, 

 more particularly those of the Pachydermata and Edentata, which will occupy the greater 

 portion of the sixth or westernmost room of the gallery. 



The extensive collection of Osseous remains from the Sub-Himalayan Mountains, trans- 

 mitted by Captain Cautley, has continued to engross a considerable portion of attention and 

 time during the past year. 



Besides those already named, various other very interesting bones have been selected and 

 divested of their hard matrix of sandstone, so that, together with such as required less labour 

 to prepare them for exhibition, a valuable store of materials for a Fossil Fauna of those 

 distant regions may ere long be displayed. 



Among these may be specified — Of Pachydermata, the crania, with other bones, of at 

 least two distinct species of a Proboscidean genus, apparently intermediate between the 

 Elephant and the Mastodon. — An additional species of Rhinoceros. — A new species (perhaps 

 generically distinct) of Hippopotamus. — Among the Ruminants (besides the unique cranium 

 already noticed), various other bones of the same, and of two distinct species of Camelus, 

 and a remarkable cranium belonging to a new species of Bos. — Among the numerous remains, 

 of carnivorous animals, especially those of the Ursus Sivalensis of Cautley and Falconer, — 

 and among the Reptilia, portions of the skull, &c., of Crocodiles and Ghavials, some of 

 them of gigantic dimensions, as are the remains of a Tortoise, related to Trionyx, and 

 which will form a new genus, as Megalochelys Atlas. 



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