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 25th December 1849. 



Secretary's Office. 



1. Four hundred and ninety-six volumes of the Additional Manuscripts, namely, from 

 17,417 to 17,912, have been registered ; six hundred and thirty volumes of the same have 

 been stamped, as well as 1,958 volumes of the Harleian Manuscripts and 27 volumes of the 

 Eoerton Manuscripts ; the number of separate documents stamped amounting to 81,056. 

 The number of stamps which have been affixed to the Rolls and Charters are as follows, 

 namely, 569 to the Harleian Collection, 2,242 to the Pipe Rolls, 1,738 to the Cotton, 6 to 

 the Sloane, 262 to the Campbell, 793 to the Lansdowne, 58 to the Topham, 14 to the 

 Egerton, and 296 to the Royal Rolls. 



2. The printed Books, exclusive of those received under the Copyright Act, registered 

 and stamped, amount to 6,838 volumes, or parts of volumes ; the Maps to 80 ; the News- 

 papers to three volumes, containing French and South Australian Papers. 



3. Two thousand three hundred and thirty-four specimens of Minerals and Fossils have 

 been registered, extending from No. 22,667 to 24,000, both numbers inclusive. 



4. The Zoological specimens which have been registered during the year amount to 12,399, 

 namely, 1,239 specimens of Vertebrated and 3,157 of Invertebrated animals, and 8,003 

 Insects. 



5. The Antiquities registered amount to 1,232 different objects, extending in date of 

 acquisition from 3d November 1848 to 19th November 1849 ; the Coins and Medals to 545, 

 extending from 23d December 1848 to 8th August 1849. 



6. The Prints and Drawings which have been marked and stamped amount to 5,518, 

 extending in date of acquisition from 21st December 1848 to 10th November 1849 ; 6,457 

 have been registered, extending from No. 601, of 11th September 1848, to No. 167, of 

 3d October 1849. 



Note. — The registration of purchased Printed Books was discontinued in the Secretary's 

 oflBce on the 30th June last, and of works received by Copyright or Donation on the 8th of 

 December. The registration of the accessions to the Museum generally has been transferred 

 from the Secretary's office to the respective departments since the 8th December. 



Department of Manuscripts. 



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

 and to the Egerton Manuscripts from 1829 to the same period, has been completed at the 

 press, and forms a folio volume of 514 pages. 



2. The Index to the Lists of Additions from 1841 to 1845 inclusive, has been partly 

 revised for press, and as far as sheet K set up in type. 



3. The sheets P P— -3 C inclusive, of the Catalogue of Maps and Topographical Draw- 

 ings, vol. iii., pp. 289-384, have been printed off. 



4. A detailed Catalogue of the whole of the Irish Manuscripts has been made, under the 

 sanction of the Trustees, by Mr. Eugene Curry. 



5. A Catalogue of the Manuscript Music received in the years 1847-8-9, has been 

 compiled. 



6. The Additional Manuscripts 7062-7066 (forming part of the Stepney Correspondence), 

 have been described in detail, as have also, with few exceptions, the Nos. from 15,684 to 

 15,772, and from 15,780 to 15,825. 



7. A brief Catalogue of the Additional Manuscripts acquired from the end of the year 

 1845 to July 1848, has been placed in the Reading Room. 



8. Six sheets of a fac-simile edition of the Palimpsest Manuscript of Homer's Iliad have 

 been sent to press. 



9. The materials for the continuation of the Catalogue of Arabic Manuscripts are in 

 progress of revision, and two sheets, 3 R and 3 S, have been printed off. Indexes of the names 

 and titles of works have also been made to the sheets already printed, from p. 53 to 

 p. 244. The preparation of a detailed Catalogue of the Persian Manuscripts has been con- 

 fided to Dr, Duncan Forbes, of King's College, London, and is now in progress, 



10. A concise Catalogue of the Turkish and Jagatai Manuscripts, in the Rich collection, 

 Nos. 7830-7939, has been placed in the Reading Room. 



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