■JO ACCOUNTS, ESTIMATES, &C. OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM. 



V. Additions. — 1. The number of volumes added to the Library (comprising 200 re- 

 ceived under the International Copyriglit Treaty) amounts to 32,152 (including Music, Maps, 

 and Newsp;ipers) of vvliich 1.339 were presented, 24,9(58 purchased, and 5,845 acquired by 

 copyright. 



2. The number of parts of volumes (comprising 53 received under the International Copy- 

 right Treaty) is 23,995 (including Maps and Music), of which 1,293 were presented, 6,583 

 purchased, and 16,119 acquired by copyright. The total number of Newspapers acquired 

 is 938. Of these, 640 (viz., 219 published in London, and 421 in the country) have been 

 received from the Inland Revenue Office in England, 128 from the branch of that o(Hce 

 in Ireland, and 133 from the branch of the same office in Scotland. 5 numbers of 3 Colonial 

 papers have Iieen presented, and 3 English, 14 Irish, 2 Colonial, 17 American, and 249 

 miscellaneous numbers of 42 Irish Papers have been purchased. 



3. The Maps, Charts, and Plans (including 1 acquired under the International Copy- 

 right Treaty) amount to 505 in 3,218 sheets; the Atlases to 34 complete and 12 parts of 

 Atlases in the course of publication. Of the Maps and Charts, 101 were presented, 40 pur- 

 chased, and 364 acquired by copyright. Of the Atlases 3 were |)urchased, and 31 and 

 12 parts of Atlases acquired by copyright. 



4. The number of pieces of Music, each comprising a complete work (includino- 183 

 received under the International Copyright Treaty) is 3,928, of which 146 were purchased 

 three presented, and 3,779 acquired by copyright. 962 parts and numbei's of works in 

 progress (including 48 received under the International Copyright Treaty) have been acquired 

 by copyright. 



5. The total numb' r of articles received (including Broadsides, Playbills, and other mis- 

 cellaneous pieces, not enumerated above) is 101,705, of which 413 were received under the 

 International Copyright Treaty. Of the articles received, 35,064 (comprising 320 received 

 under the International Copyright Treaty) are complete works. Of the complete works, 

 23,846 were purchased, 1,705 presented, and 9,513 acquired by copyright. 



6. Each article acquired has been stamped. The number of stamps impressed is 

 244,464. 



VL A Guide to the Books exhibited in the Grenville and King's Libraries has been pre- 

 pared and printed, and a list of the books forming the library of reference in the Reading 

 Room has also been prepared, and a considerable poriion of it printed. A Hand 

 Catalogue has also been prepared for the same library of reference, by which the books on 

 the shelves are examined every morning, and the unauthorised removal of any volume im- 

 mediately detected. 



J. Winter Jones. 



Department of Manuscripts. 



1. An additional portion of the Catalogue of Auditions for 1848, has been revised and 

 the copy for the years 1853 and 1854 further advanced, including the Additional Manuscripts, 

 Nos. 19,400-19,402 (Collection of Autographs of the late Dawson Turner), and from' 

 No. 19,650 to No. 19,990 inclusive. The Egerton Manuscripts Nos. 1,683-1,685 have also 

 been described. 



2. The Guide to the Autographs, Manuscripts, Charters and Seals, exhibited to the 

 Public in the Department, has been completed, and sent to press. 



3. The brief Catalogue of the Additional Manuscripts, placed in the Reading Room has 

 been continued from September 1857 to June 1858 inclusive. No. 22,101 to No. 22 472 • 

 and a portion of the Bouquet and Haldimand Papers (acquired in 1857) entered, from No' 

 21,631 to No. 21,754. 



4. The Additional Charters and Rolls have been described from No. 3,308 to No. 3 510 

 inclusive, and the Egerton Charteis from No. 103 to No. 112. 



5. The Sheets of the Supplement to the Catalogue of Arabic Manuscripts have been 

 printed off, from 4 X to 5 K inclusive, and 122 volumes described, or the descriptions 

 revised, for this Supplement. The printed text of the Catalogue has also been corrected, 

 from p. 181 to p. 257. Thirty-five Oriental Manuscripts in various languages have beeri 

 described more briefly for the Catalogue of Additions, 185S. 



6. Four volumes in Syriac have been described for the Catalogue of this class, and the 

 leaves ot 43 others arranged for the binder. 



7. The general classed Inventory of the Oriental Manuscripts has been kept up to the 

 present time. "^ 



8. Tables of Contents and Indexes have been made to the Harleian Manuscripts 4 933- 

 4,936 and 7,344-7,351, and Additional 19,682 ; and the Indexes to Harl. 374, 376, 3,777 



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