ACCOUNTS, &C. OF BRITISH MUSEUM. 



VIII. — PROGRESS made iu the Cataloguing and Arrangement of the Collections^ 

 and Account of Objects added, in the Year ending 25 December 1845. 



Secretaiiy's Department. 



1. One thousand and four volumes of the additional Manuscripts have been registered and 

 stamped, namely, from No. 13,601 to 1.3,899, and from 14,742 to 15,446; Eighty-four 

 volumes of the Egerton Manuscripts have also been registered and stamped, namely, from 

 No. 981 to 1,064 ; Seventy thousand five hundred and fifty-seven separate papers or leaves, 

 comprised in 559 volumes of the Cotton Manuscripts, have been stamped ; and One 

 hundred and thirty-eight of the additional Charters and Rolls, namely, from No. 6,014 to 

 6,152, have been registered and stamped. 



2. The Books registered and stamped amount to 21,696 volumes or parts of volumes ; the 

 Maps to 175; the Pieces of Music to 960; and the Newspapers to 1,235 different 

 Publications. 



3. Two thousand one hundred and twenty Specimens of Minerals and Fossils have been 

 registered, extending from No. 17,680 to 19,799. 



4. The number of Zoological Specimens registered during the year is 15,090 ; namely, of 

 Vertebrata, 6,480; ofMollusca and Radiata, 2,640 ; and of Insects, etc., 5,970. 



5. The Antiquities registered amount to 2,150 objects, extending in date of acquisition 

 from 8 January to 14 December 1844 ; the Coins and Medals to 3,692, extending from 11 

 January to 24 December 1844. 



6. The Prints and Drawings that have been marked, registered and stamped, amount to 

 3,134, extending in date of acquisition from 1 February to 24 December 1845. 



Department of Manuscripts. 



1. The greater part of the List of Additions for 1842 (including the extensive series of 

 Wellesley Papers) has been printed off. 



2. The List of Additions for the years 1843, 1844 and 1845, are in a state of forwardness, 

 containing, as far as proceeded with, descriptions of 955 Manuscripts. 



3. The sheets of the Catalogue of Arabic Manuscripts, from sign. 2C to 2Z inclusive, 

 have been printed off, and complete the first portion of the Work, comprising the Biblical 

 and Theological Christian Writers, and four classes of Mahornmedan Authors ; viz. 1. The 

 Coran and its Commentators; 2. Devotion and Theology ; 3. Jurisprudence ; 4. History 

 and Biography. 



4. The General Index to the additional Manuscripts has been continued from No. 7,080 

 to No. 10,019 inclusive, including the Manuscripts acquired in the years 1828 — 1835 ; and 

 a detailed Catalogue has been drawn up of the Manuscript Music acquired in the years 

 1843 — 1845, including the large Collection presented by the Most Honourable the Marquess 

 of Northampton. 



5. An Index has been made to the Rich Collection of Oriental Manuscripts. 



6. One hundred and twenty-eight Manuscripts acquired at various times, between 1800 

 and 1834, and not previously entered, have been described and indexed. 



7. Four hundred and fifty-six Titles of Maps and Plans have been described for the third 

 volume of the Catalogue of Maps and Topographical Drawings. 



8. The additional Manuscripts have been arranged and numbered, from No. 15,349 lo 

 No. 15,667 inclusive, and stamped, from No. 13,601 to No. 13,889, (Wellesley Papers), and 

 from No. 14,742 to No. 15,180 inclusive. 



9. The additional Charters and Rolls have been arranged and numbered, from No. 6,153 

 to No. 6,292 inclusive, and stamped, from No. 6,014 to No. 6,152. 



10. The Egerton Manuscripts have been arranged and numbered, from No. 1,070 to 

 No. 1,138, and stamped and bound, from No. 981 to No. 1,064. 



11. To provide for the greater security of the valuable Collections of Manuscripts 

 deposited in the Museum, ithas been deemed advisable to cause every original Document and 

 every distinct Tract in a volume to be separately stamped. This has been done with the 

 greater part of the Cottonian Collection, amounting to 555 volumes. 



12. Ten of the valuable Cottonian Manuscripts on vellum, damaged by fire in 1731, have 

 been flattened, inlaid and re-bound. 



Eighteen of the injured Cottonian Manuscripts on paper have been inlaid and re-bound ; 

 and fifty-two Harleian, four Royal, seven Sloane, ninety-one Egerton, and above one thousand 

 three hundred and thirty of the additional Manuscripts, including the larger porttion of the 

 Wellesley Papers, and the Welsh Manuscripts presented by the Governors of the Welsh 

 School and Cymmrodorion Society, have been bound, repaired and lettered. 



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