ACCOUNTS, &C. OF BRITISH MUSEUM. 



VIII. — PROGRESS made in the Catalogiting and Arrangement of the Collections, 

 and Account of Objects added, in the Year ending 25 December 1847. 



Secretary's Department. 



1. One thousand one hundred and seven volumes of the additional Manuscripts have been 

 registered and stamped, namely, from No. 14,493 to 14,742 (with the exception of a few 

 Syriac Manuscripts not yet received in the Secretary's Department), and hom 15,701 to 

 16,484. One hundred- and forty-one volumes of the Cotton Manuscripts ; 39 volumes of 

 the Harleian Manuscripts j 1,244 volumes of the Lansdowne Manuscripts, and 246 volumes 

 of the Manuscripts of George III. have been stamped ; the number of separate documents of 

 leaves stamped amounting to 216,646. Thirty-seven of the additional Charters and Rolls, 

 namely, from 6,299 to 6,335, have been registered and stamped. 



2. The printed Books registered and stamped amount to 35,288 volumes or parts of 

 volumes; the Maps to 270; the Newspapers to 408 volumes of different Publications. 



3. Eight hundred and sixty specimens of Minerals and Fossils have been registered, 

 extending from No. 20,683 to 21,543. 



4. The number of Zoological Specimens registered during the year is 17,888; namely, of 

 Vertebrata, 3,031 ; of Mollusca and Radiata, 8,207 ; and of Insects, 6,650. 



5. The Antiquities registered amount to 682 different objects, extending in date of acqui- 

 sition from 20 October 1845 to 30 December 1846; the Coins and Medals to 2,587, 

 extending from 21 October 1845 to 4 March 1847. 



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

 to 1,485, extending in date of acquisition from 19 December 1846 to 20 November 1847. 



Dkpartment of Manuscripts. 



1. The List of Additions for 1844 has been entirely printed off (including the Welsh MSS. 

 presented by the Governors of the Welsh School and the Cymmrodorion Society), and the 

 descriptions of the Additional Manuscripts acquired in 1845 has been placed in the printer's 

 hands. 



2. Nine sheets of the Second Part of the Catalogue of Arabic Manuscripts have been 

 printed off. 



3. The third volume of the Catalogue of Maps and Topographical Drawings have been 

 continued, and pp. 73-256 printed off. An additional portion, containing \he Maps of 

 China, is in type. 



4. A detailed Catalogue of the Ethiopic Manuscripts in the Museum Collections has been 

 printed, and is ready for publication, with the exception of a few sheets of the Index. 



5. A Catalogue has been made, with an Index, of the Collection of Manuscript Music, 

 bequeathed by M. Domenico Dragonetti in 1846. 



6. The General Index to the Additional Manuscripts, from the year 1782 to 1835 inclu- 

 sive, consisting of about 44,000 titles, has been arranged and prepared for the printer. 

 The proof-sheets from B to K K have been received, and the sheets B to O printed off. 



7. The Additional Manuscripts have been arranged, entered and numbered from No. 

 16,282 to No. 17,102, and stamped from No. 14,549 to No. 14,614 (Syriac), and from 

 No. 15,701 to No. 16,184. 



8. The Additional Charters have been numbered from No. 6,293 to 6,338, and stamped 

 from No. 6,153 to 6,334, 



9. The Egerton Manuscripts have been arranged, entered and numbered from No. 1,139 

 to 1,148. 



10. Every Tract, original Document, or Paper, has been stamped in 144 volumes of the 

 Cottonian Collection ; in the 1,245 volumes of the Lansdowne Collection ; in 246 volumes 

 of George the Third's Library ; and in 39 Select Manugcripts of the Harleian Collection. 



11. Ninety-six of the Syriac Manuscripts have been arranged for the binder, and 37 

 bound. A portion of the large accession of Syriac MSS. recently acquired has been par- 

 tially arranged, and will continue to require great labour and pains to be bestowed on 

 them. 



12. Seventeen of the Cottonian volumes on vellum, and ten on paper, injured in the fire of 

 1731, have been flattened, inlaid and re-bound. Among them are the fragments of the 

 (once) invaluable MS. of the Greek Genesis, wiitten in the fourth century, with miniatures. 



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