ACCOUNTS, ESTIMATES, &C. OF BRITISH MUSEUM. 



VII. — PROGRESS made in the Cataloguing and Arrangement of the Collections, 

 and Account of Objects added, in the Year ending 25th December 1852. 



Department of Printed Books. 



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

 20,126, besides 1,162 removals ; that of titles to 28,946, besides 3,786 alterations caused by 

 the removals. The re-marking of volumes bound has amounted to 1,557. The total number 

 of labels attached to books is 20,548. These items amount altogether to 76,125. 



II. Old General Catalogue. — Two Indexes to the heading "Periodical Publications" 

 (I. British and Colonial, comprising 1,660 entries, and, 2. Foreign, comprising 1,820 entries), 

 have been laid dow^n in three sets, each filling 180 leaves. A set has been inserted in each 

 of the two copies of the Old General Catalogue. 



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

 this Catalogue amounts to 39,757. 



2. 11,932 titles have been transcribed fourfold, making a total of 47,728 ; and 723 titles 

 have been re-written fourfold ; together, 2,892. 



3. 7,675 titles of the King's Pamphlets have been transcribed fourfold ; in all, 30,700 : 

 and 174 have been re-writtcn ; together, 696. 



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

 is 33,363, besides 2,466 of Chinese works ; altogether, 35,829. 



2. The number of titles transcribed fourfold for the Supplementary Catalogue is 30,436> 

 besides 2,819 Index slips; in all, 133,020. The number of titles re-written for the Supple- 

 mentary Catalogue is 16,535 ; in all, 66,140. The number of title slips inserted is 151,469 ; 

 viz. 140,193 in three copies of the Supplementary Catalogue, and 11,276 for Index slips to 

 various long headings. This insertion has rendered it necessary, in order to preserve the 

 strictly alphabetical order of the names and headings, to take up and re-insert 59,665 titles in 

 each of the three copies of the Supplementary Catalogue, altogether 178,995, and to add 

 to each of these copies 16,236 leaves. By the insertion of these leaves the number of 

 volumes of each copy of (he Supplementary Catalogue has been extended from 193 to 300. 

 Four Indexes have been made and prefixed to as many long headings in this Catalogue, and 

 of those already made, 20 have been kept up. 



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

 is 124. 



4. 166,000 title slips (being the fourth copy of the transcripts made for the New and the 

 Supplementary Catalogues) have been laid d'lwn on cartridge paper, and are in progress 

 of arrangement according to their press-marks, so as to form a Hand Catalogue in slips. 



(c.) Majjs. — The new titles and cross-references of Maps amount to 5,155. 



(d.) 3fusic. — 1. The titles and cross-references written for this collection are 1,070. 



2. 1,923 titles have been transcribed fourfold ; in all, 7,692. 102 titles have been re-tran- 

 scribed ; together, 408. The number of titles inserted in each of three copies of this Cata- 

 logue is 2,524 ; together, 7,572. This insertion has rendered it necessary to take up and 

 re-insert 586 titles in each copy, in all, 1,758, and to add 294 leaves, being 98 in each copy. 



IV. Binding. — The number of volumes bound is 7,086 in 5,320, including 899 Pamph- 

 lets and 325 volumes of Catalogues. T he number of volumes repaired is 1,098. 406 Maps 

 have been mounted. 



V. Heading Room Service. — 1. The number of books returned to the shelves of the 

 General Library from the Reading Rooms is 127,782 ; to those of the Hoyal Library, 11,362 ; 

 to those of the Grenville Library, 1,029 ; to the closets in which books are kept from day to 

 day for the use of the Readers, 114,184; makmg a total of 254,357, or 880 per diem. 

 Adding the number of volumes returned to the shelves of the Reading Rooms, about 158,500, 

 the whole amounts to 412,857, or 1,428 per diem. 



2. Readers. — The number of Readers has been 72,403, on an average 260 per diem, the 

 Reading Rooms having been kept open 289 days ; each Reader has, therefore, consulted on 

 an average nearly six volumes per diem. 



VI. Additions. — 1. The number of volumes added to the Library amounts to 16,144 (in- 

 cluding Maps and Newspapers), of which 1,125 were presented, 9,005 purchased, and 5,414 

 obtained by copyright. 



2. The number of parts of volumes is 17,346 (including Music and Maps), of which 524 

 were presented, 9,896 purchased, and 6,927 obtained by copyright, 'ihe total number of 

 Newspapers obtained is 541, which have been bound in 449 volumes. ■ Of these, 335 (viz. 



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