ACCOUNTS, &C. OF BRITISH MUSEUM. 



c.) Maps. — The new titles and cross-references of Maps amount to 7,012. - 



d.) Music. — The titles written for this collection are 1,891, besides which, 178 volumes, 

 containing 1,990 titles, have been entered in the hand Catalogue, and marked. 



III. Binding. — The number of volumes bound is 11,640 in 8,115, including 721 Pamphlets. 

 That of volumes repaired 396, besides 262 Maps mounted, 



IV. Supply of Boohs to Headers. — 1. The number of books returned to the shelves of the 

 General Library from the Reading Rooms is 115,588 ; to those of the Royal Library, 11,306 ; 

 to the closets, in which books are kept for the use of the Readers from day to day, 87,425, 

 making a total of 214,319, or 734 per diem ; adding the number of volumes returned to the 

 shelves of the Reading Rooms, about 114,000, the whole amounts to 328,319 volumes con- 

 sulted in the course of the year, or about 1,124 per diem. 



2. The number of Readers has been 65,819, on an average 225 per diem, the Reading 

 Room having been kept open 292 days : each reader has, therefore, consulted on an average 

 five volumes daily. 



3. The number of volumes returned from the various departments of the Museum to the 

 shelves of the General Library amounts to 5,242 ; of those returned to the shelves of the 

 Royal Library the number is 720, together 5,962. 



V. Additions. — 1. The number of volumes added to the Library amounts to 22,056 

 (including Music, Maps and Newspapers), of which 1,422 were presented, 17,218 purchased, 

 and 3,416 were received by copyright. 



2. The number of parts of volumes is 9,074 (including Music and Maps), of which 385 

 were presented, 3,864 purchased, and 4,871 obtained by copyright. The Newspapers 

 obtained from the Stamp Office amount to 436, which have been bound in 250 volumes. 

 Of these Newspapers 196 were published in London, and 240 in the Provinces. 



3. The Maps, Charts and Plans amount to 857, in 1,542 sheets; the Atlases to five com- 

 plete and three still in progress, besides 58 parts and numbers of Atlases. Of the works, 57 

 were presented, 778 purchased, and 27, as well as the 58 parts and numbers of Atlases, 

 received by copyright. 



4. The number of volumes of Music amounts to 68, of which 13, comprising six works, 

 were presented, and 55, comprising 39 works, were acquired by copyright. Besides these, 

 1,240 parts and numbers, comprising 1,016 complete works and 306 parts and numbers of 

 works in progress, have been acquired by copyright. 



5. The total number of articles received is 33,821, of which 20,672 are complete works, 

 and 237 works not yet completed. Of the complete works, 15,382 were purchased, 1,275 

 presented, and 4,015, as well as the 237 works in progress, were obtained by copyright. 



The number of old works purchased, that is to say, of works published before 1844, 

 amounts to 10,117, on the subjects enumerated in a general manner in the following state- 

 ment : — The marginal number and letters refer, as formerly, to the corresponding sections 

 and paragraphs of the Report dated January 1, 1845, printed by order of The House of 

 Commons on tlie 27th of March 1846. 



The collection of English Bibles has been greatly improved by the purchase of six p^jt I ch a 

 editions, dated 1540 and 1541, of Cranmer's. The Museum now possesses the first seven 's ,'^' 



editions of that publication mentioned by the late Mr. Wilson in his Catalogue. Before 

 1840 the Library did not possess one of them. The first edition of the Bible in Bohemian, 

 printed at Prague in 1488, as well as the first Protestant vei'sion of the same book into the 

 same language, printed at Kralitz in 1579-93, have been also acquired. 



In 1847 was purchased a copy on vellum of a Latin translation of the Scala Spiritualis of t , ^ 



Joannes Climacus, printed by order of Cardinal Ximenes in 1505, at Toledo ; in 1848 was 

 purchased a copy on vellum of the same work in Spanish, printed by order of the same 

 prelate, with the same type and at the same place m 1504 ; both volumes of great beauty 

 and rarity. 



The " Vaticinium " of Amaseus, a recently discovered production of the Aldine Press, § i d. 



forms a most important addition to the series already in the Library from that printer. 



To the large collection of pamphlets on Political Economy already in the Library a great § 2 /. 



addition has been made by the purchase of works of the same description selected out of a 

 collection formerly belonging to Adam Anderson, the author of the " Historical Deduction 

 of the Origin of Commerce." 



The copy of the first volume of Ramusio's Collection, hitherto wanting, and lately pur- h 5 c. 



chased, deserves special mention, having formerly belonged to Majoli, as is shown by its 

 elegant binding. 



A collection, supposed to be unique, of 1 30 Proclamations issued at Dublin by the several § 5 d. 



Irish Governments during 1685-1691, has been secured for the British Museum. 



Some additions have been made to the works on the history and topography of Spanish § 5 m. 



America, printed in the country. Among them are about 200 pamphlets on Politics and 

 Statistics, which form a valuable supplement to those purchased in 1842, at the sale of 

 M. Chaumette des Fosses. 



Considerable additions have been made to the works on Italian Topography, among which § 5 "• 



the seven magnificent folio volumes of Rossini on Rome. 



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