ACCODNTS, ESTIMATES, &C. OF THE BKITISH MUSEUM. 



VIII. — PROGRESS made in the Cataloguing and Arrangement, and Account of 



Objects added, in the Year 1859. 



Department of Printed Books. 



1. Works added to the Collection during the year have been placed on tlie shelves of the 

 Library as soon as catalogued. The press-marks, indicating their respective localities, have 

 been marked on the inside and affixed to the back of each volume ; also, on the title and 

 entry in the Catalogue. The total number of these press-marks amounts to 125,617. 

 Obliterated press-marks have been renewed on the backs of 140,446 volumes. 



II. Cataloguing : — (a.) JVew General Catalogue. — The number of titles and cross- 

 references written for this Catalogue amounts to 28,826. The number of titles tran- 

 scribed fourfold for this Catalogue is 855, and of index slips, 212; 5,S79 title slips 

 and 50 index slips have been incorporated into each of two copies, and 13,405 title slips 

 and 89 index slips into each of three copies of this Catalogue. A third copy, comprising 

 330,609 title slips and 4,413 index shps of this Catalogue has been laid down and bound in 

 672 volumes. This insertion has rendered it necessary, in order to maintain the alphabetical 

 arrangement of the titles, to take up and re-insert in the three copies 51,474 title slips, and 

 to add to the three copies 1,569 new leaves. 



(b.) Supplementary Catalogue, — The number of titles and cross-references written for 

 this Catalogue is 32,752, besides 490 for the Hebrew Catalogue, and 243 for the Chinese 

 Catalogue ; in all, 33,485. The number of titles transcribed fourfold for this Catalogue 

 is 27,727, besides 315 index shps ; 21,929 title slips, and 257 index slips have been incorpo- 

 rated into each of three copies of this Catalogue. In order to maintain the alphabetical 

 arrangement during this incorporation, 11,098 title shps and 96 index slips have been 

 removed and re-inserted in each copy of (his Catalogue. 328 new leaves have been added 

 to each copy. 



The number of entries made in the Hand Catalogue of the Periodical Publications is 

 238. 



(c.) Carbonic Hand Catalogue. — 41,000 title slips have been mounted on cartridge paper 

 for this Catalogue; 419,758 title slips, so mounted, have been arranged, and 25,590 incor- 

 porated into the series. 



(d.) Maps. — 1. The new titles and cross-references written for maps amount to 4,688. 

 The number of titles transcribed fourfold for this Catalogue is 3,730. 24,163 title slips of 

 one copy have been relaid in consequence of the crowded state of the entries in the volumes ; 

 and a third copy, comprising 50,558 title slips, has also been laid down. 



2. The collection of maps has been removed to the south-east angle of the new buildino-, 

 thoroughly arranged, and a Hand Catalogue made. 



(e.) Music Catalogue. — The new titles and cross references written for this Catalogue 

 amount to 4,917. 



III. — The number of volumes bound is 12,139 in 10,072, including 1,373 Pamphlets. 

 The number of volumes repaired is 2,523. 221 iVIaps have been mounted. 



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

 General Library from the Reading Room is 192,505 ; to those of the Royal Library, 

 11,468 ; to those of the Grenville Library, 680 ; and to the Closets in which books are kept 

 from day today for the use of the Readers, 149,605. Adding the number of volumes 

 returned to the shelves of the Reading Room, about 673,000, the whole amounts to 

 1,027,258, or 3,506 per diem. The number for the year 1858 was 876,897, or 3,044 per 

 diem. 



2. The number of Readers has been 122,424 ; on an average 418 per diem, the Reading 

 Room having been kept open 293 days ; each Reader has consulted, on an average, upwards 

 of eight volumes per diem. 



V. Additions. — 1. The number of volumes added to the Library (comprising 273 re- 

 ceived under the International Copyright Treaties) amounts to 29,167 (including Music, 

 Maps, and Newspapers) of which 1,715 were presented, 21,291 purchased, and 6161 

 acquired by copyright. 



2. The number of parts of volumes (comprising 32 received under the International Copy- 

 right Treaties) is 31,235 (including Maps and Music), of which 956 were presented, 13,769 

 purchased, and 16,510 acquired by copyright. The total number of Newspapers acquired 

 0.24. B is 



