ESTIMATES, &C. OF BRITISH MUSEUM. 



Department of Printed Books. 



1. Arrangement of the Librari/. — The number of works and volumes marked amounts to 

 21,33G, besides 7,427 removals ; that of titles to 25,050, besides 7,743 alterations caused by 

 the removals. The re-marking of volumes bound has amounted to 810. '!'he press-marks 

 inserted in a third copy of the Grenville Catalogue amount to 21,948, and 2,806 have been 

 inserted in each of three copies of the printed portion of the new Catalos^ue. The total 

 number of labels attached to books is 27,034. 'I'hese items amount altogether to 119,954. 



II. Catalogving : — (a.) New General Catalogue. — 1. The number of titles written for 

 this Catalogue amounts to 33,345. 



2. 10,027 titles have been transcribed fourfold, making a total of 40,108; 338 titles have 

 been re-transcribed in each of the three interleaved copies of the first volume of the new 

 Catalogue; in all 1,014. 



(b.) Supplementary Catalogue. — 1. The number of new titles written for this Catalogue 

 is 28, 578, besides 1,682 of Chinese works ; altogether 30,260. 



2. The number of titles transcribed fourfold for the Supplementary Catalogue is 52,611, 

 besides 2,050 Index slips; in all 218,644. The number of titles inserted is 173,577; viz. 

 2,690 in a third copy of the Grenville Catalogue; 168,837 in three copies of the Supple- 

 mentary Catalogue, and 8,200 for Index slips to the headings, " Academies," " England," 

 and " Periodical Publications." This insertion has rendered it necessary, in order to pre- 

 serve the strict alphabetical order of the names and headings, to take up and re-insert 48,458 

 titles in each of the three copies of the Supplemeniary Catalogue; altogether 145,374, and 

 to add to each of these copies 2,941 leaves. By the insertion of these leaves the number of 

 volumes of each copy of the Supplementary Catalogue has been extended from 153 to 193. 

 Six Indexes have been made and prefixed to as many long headings in this catalogue, and 

 20 Indexes of a similar nature, prepared in the previous year, have been kept up. 



3. The number of entries made in the Hand Catalogue for the Periodical Publications 

 is 913. 



(c.) Maps. — 1. The new titles and cross-references of Maps amount to 2,892. 



2. 125 titles have been transcribed fourfold, in all 500, and one set inserted in each of 

 two copies of the Map Catalogue. 



(d.) Music. — 1. The titles and cross-references written for this collection are 752. 

 2. A set of the titles of the collection of Music (30,400 in number) has been laid down 

 and bound in 57 volumes, and forms a third copy of this Catalogue. 



III. Binding. — The number of volumes bound is 8,919 in 6,783, including 2,090 Pamph- 

 lets and 180 volumes of Catalogues. The number of volumes repaired is 970. 94 Maps 

 have been mounted. 



IV. Reading Room Service. — 1. The number of books returned to the shelves of the 

 General Library from the Reading Rooms is 1 19,434 ; to those of the Royal Library 9,888 ; 

 to those of the Grenville Library 914; to the closets in which books are kept from day to 

 day for the use of the Readers, 130,115 ; making a total of 260,351, or 891 per diem. 

 Adding the number of volumes returned to the shelves of the Reading Rooms, about 164,600, 

 the whole amounts to 424,851, or 1,455 per diem. 



2. Readers. — The number of Readers has been 78,419, on an average 269 per diem, the 

 Reading Rooms having been kept open 292 days; each Reader has, therefore, consulted on 

 an average upwards of five volumes per diem. 



V. Additions. — 1. The number of volumes added to the Library amounts to 11,492 (in- 

 cludino; Music, Maps and Newspapers), of which 1,143 were presented, 6,721 purchased, and 

 3,628 obtained by copyright. 



2. The number of parts of volumes is 11,837 (including Music and Maps), of which 103 

 were presented, 6,647 purchased, and 5,087 obtained by copyright. The Newspapers 

 obtained from the Stamp Office amount to 482, and have been bound in 393 volumes. Of 

 these Newspapers, 235 were published in London. 



3. The Maps, Charts and Plans amount to 1,013 in 1,846 bh- ets ; the Atlases to 6 com- 

 plete, and 46 parts of Atlases in course of publication. Of the Maps, Charts and Plans, 

 105 were presented, 881 purchased, and 27 obtained by copyright. Of the complete 

 Atlases, 4 were presented and 2 obtained by copyright; and of the parts of Atlases, 25 were 

 purchased and 21 procured by copyright. 



4. The number of volumes of Music amounts to three, comprising one work, and which 

 were obtained by purchase. In addition to these 1,129 complete works, and 714 parts and 

 numbers of works in piogress, have been acquired by copyright. 



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