10 ACCOUNTS, ESTIMATES, &C. OF THE BRITISH MUSEOM. 



is 896. Of these, 384 (viz., 178 published in London, and 406 in the country) have been 

 received from the Inland Revenue Office in England, 113 from the branch of that office 

 in Ireland, and 125 from the branch of the same office in Scotland. 34 have been presented, 

 and 40 purchased. 



3. The Maps, Charts, and Plans (including 2 acquired under the International Copy- 

 right Treaties) amount to 1,720 in 7,319 sheets; the Atlases to 92 complete and 9 parts of 

 Atlases in course of publication. Of the Maps and Charts, 99 were presented, 1,306 pur- 

 chased, and 315 acquired by copyright. Of the Atlases 74 were purchased, and 18 com- 

 plete Atlases, and 9 parts of Atlases, were acquired by copyright. 



4. The number of pieces of Music, each comprising a complete work (including 278 

 received under the International Copyright Treaties) is 5,332, of which 1,688 were purchased, 

 two presented, and 3,642 acquired by copyright. 727 parts and numbers of works in 

 progress (including 25 received under the International Copyright Treaties) have been acquired 

 by copyright. 



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

 cellaneous pieces, not enumerated above) is 228,438, of which 690 were received under the 

 International Copyright Treaty. Of the articles received (exclusive of Broadsides, Play- 

 bills, Photographs, &c., and comprising 456 received under the International Copyright 

 Treaties) 33,559 are complete works. Of the complete works, 22,481 were purchased, 

 1,360 presented, and 9,718 acquired by copyright. 



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

 269,937. 



VI. The list of the books forming the library of reference in the Reading Room has been 

 completed and printed, and two copies, mounted on larger paper, with the press-marks added, 

 have been bound to correspond with the other Catalogues, and placed in ihe Reading Room 

 for the use of the Readers. 



J. Winter Jones. 



Department of Manuscripts. 



1. The Catalogue of Additional Manuscripts has been continued for the years 1854 and 

 1855, including descriptions of the Nos. 19,991 to 20,074, 20,107 to 20,240 (Lowe Papers), 

 20,693 to 20,920, and also 22,732 to 22,750 acquired in 1859. 



2. The brief Catalogue of the Additional Manuscripts, placed in (he Reading Room, has 

 been continued from July 1858 to July 1859 (Nos. 22,473-23,067). 



3. The Additional Charters and Rolls have been described from No. 3,511 to No. 4,123, 

 and the slips revised and entered in the General Catalogue, from No. 3,231 to No. 3,763. 



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

 printed off, from 5 L to 6 O inclusive, and 111 volumes described, or the descriptions 

 revised for the same. Thirty Arabic and Persian Manuscripts have been described more 

 briefly for the Catalogue of Additions, 1859. 



5. Tile leaves of 64 Syriac Manuscripts have been arranged for the binder, and many 

 leaves restored to their places in other volumes. 



6. Indexes or Tables of Contents have been made to the Additional Manuscripts, 

 20,190-20,192,23,120-23,125; as also to the Catalogue of WoUey Charters, and the List 

 of Casts from Seals. 



7. The Register of Donations to the Department has been kept up to the end of 1859. 



8. Transcripts of Vol. 1 of the General Catalogue of Additional Charters and Rolls, 

 (Nos. 1-1730) with an Index, and of the Catalogue of Wolley Charters, with an Index, also 

 of the Index to Doubleday's Casts of Seals, have been made for the use of the Heading 

 Boom. 



9. The arrangement of the Gualterio and Haldimand Papers for the binder has been 

 completed, and an additional portion of the Bentinck Papers (acquired in 1858) has been 

 examined and incorporated in the volumes previously arranged, forming the Egerton 

 Manuscripts, 1704-1756. 



10. The Additional Manuscripts have been arranged, numbered, and registered, from 

 No. 22,642 to No. 23,211 (including the additions to the end of 1859); and bound, repaired, 

 lettered and stamped, from No. 20,403 to No. 20,425 (Gualterio Papers), No. 22,191 to 

 No. 22,267 (Straffijrd Papers), and No. 22,641 to No. 23,112. 



11. Many important State Papers (recovered from the remains left after the fire of 1731) 

 have been added to the following volumes of the Cottonian Collection : Caligula D.I., 

 D.VII., D.VIII., D.IX., E.IV., E.V.; Galba B.III., B.IV., B.XL; Otho E.yill. ; 



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