ACCOUNTS, &C. OF BRITISH MUSEUM. 



VIII. — PROGRESS made in the Cataloguing and Arrangement of the Collections 

 and Account of Objects added, in the Year ending 25 December 1846. 



Secretary's Department. 



1. Eight hundred and twenty-six volumes of the additional Manuscripts have been regis- 

 tered and stamped, namely, from No. 13,900 to 14,492 (with a few exceptions), and from 

 15,447 to 15,700; 75 volumes of the Egerton Manuscripts have also been registered and 

 stamped, namely, from No. 1,065 to 1,139; 18,090 separate papers or leaves, comprised 

 in 112 volumes of the Cotton Manuscripts, have been stamped; and 146 of the additional 

 Charters and Rolls, namely, from No. 6,153 to 6,298, have been registered and stamped. 



2. The printed Books registered and stamped amount to 30,550 volumes or parts of 

 volumes, exclusive of 5,117 volumes of the Chinese' Books presented by direction of The 

 Earl of Aberdeen; the Maps to 243 ; the Newspapers to 421 different Publications. 



3. Eight hundred and eighty-four specimens of Minerals and Fossils have been registered, 

 extending from No. 19,800 to 20,683, together with various hitherto unregistered specimens 

 belonging to the Mantell Collection. 



4. The number of Zoological Specimens registered during the year is 16,060; namely, of 

 Vertebrata, 4,022; of Mollusca and Radiata, 2,350; and of Insects, 9,688. 



5. The Antiquities registered amount to 210 different objects, extending in date of acqui- 

 sition from 14 December 1844 to 29 November 1845; the Coins and Medals to 2,150, 

 extending from 24 December 1844 to 20 October 1845. 



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

 to 534, extending in date of acquisition from 24 December 1845 to 19 December 1846. 



Department of Manuscripts. 



1. The remaining portion of the List of Additions for 1842 has been printed off, and the 

 tentire List of Additions for 1843. Two sheets of the List of 1844 have been revised, and 

 a great part of the copy is ready for press. The Additions for 1845 and 1846 are in progress. 



2. Nine sheets of the Second Part of the Catalogue of the Arabic Manuscripts, com- 

 'prising the writers on Geography and Philosophy, have been printed off. 



3. The sheets from B to L inclusive, of the third volume of the Catalogue of Maps and 

 Topographical Drawings have been printed off. 



4. The General Index to the Additional Manuscripts, from the year 1782 to the year 1835 

 inclusive, consisting of nearly 50,000 titles, has been completed, and is now in pi'ogress 

 of final revision for press. 



5. An Index has been made to the Lists of Additions for 1841 and 1842; and also an 

 Index to Lord F. Campbell's Collection of Ancient Charters. 



6. The Additional Manuscripts have been arranged and numbered from No. 15,668 to 

 16,281, and stamped from No. 14,425 to 14,492 (Syriac), and from No. 15,181 to 15,700 

 inclusive. 



7. One hundred and twenty-six of the Syriac Manuscripts, procured from the Monastery 

 of St. Mary Deipara, in the Desert of Scete, have been arranged and bound. 



8. One hundred and twelve volumes of the Cottonian Collection of Manuscripts have 

 been stamped. 



9. Twelve of the valuable Cottonian volumes on vellum, and four on paper, injured in the 

 fire of 1731, have been flattened, inlaid and re-bound. 



Twenty-one of the original Anglo-Saxon Charters have been repaired, and laid down on 

 boards. 



Ninety-three of the Harleian and Four hundred and nine of the Additional Manuscripts 

 have been bound, repaired and lettered. 



1 0. The Additions made to the Department since the last Report are as follows : 



To the General Collection, — 



Manuscripts --____._ 730 

 Original Charters ------- 33 



To the Egerton Collection, — 



Manuscripts __-___-5 



1 S9' A 3 Among 



