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



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



Objects added, in the Year 1860. 



Department of Printed Books. 



1. Works added to the Collection during the year have been placed on the 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 178,989. 

 Obliterated press-marks have been renewed on 30,235 volumes. 



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

 references written for this Catalogue amounts to 26,315. The number of titles tran- 

 scribed fourfold for this Catalogue is 2,598, and of index slips 205; 21,649 title slips 

 and 205 index slips have been incorporated into each of three copies of this Catalogue. 

 This incorporation has rendered it necessary to remove and re-insert 24,920 title slips, and 

 to add to each copy 1,056 new leaves. 



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

 this Catalogue is 46,108, besides 70 for the Hebrew Catalogue ; in ail, 46,178. The number 

 of titles transcribed fourfold for this Catalogue is 37,932, besides 649 index slips ; 15,077 

 title slips, and 649 index slips have been mcorporated into each of three copies of this 

 Catalogue. In order to maintain the alphabetical arrangement, 11,668 title slips have been 

 removed and re-inserted in each copy, and 376 leaves added to each copy. 



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

 is 350. 



(c.) Carbonic Hand Catalogue. — 30,315 title slips of the fourth transcript have been 

 mounted on cartridge paper for this Catalogue; 68,640 title slips, so mounted, have been 

 arranged, and 100,759 incorporated into the general series. 



(d.) Maps, — The new titles and cross-references written for maps amount to 4,252. 

 The number of titles transcribed fourfold for this Catalogue is 1,870. The number of titles 

 incorporated into ea(h of two copies of this Catalogue is 6,040. This incorporation has ren- 

 dered it necess;iry to remove and re-insert in each of these two copies 1,832 title slips, and 

 to add to each copy 771 leaves. The relaying of the title slips in this Catalogue has been 

 completed during this year ; 42,646 title slips have been relaid in one copy, 15,262 in a 

 second copy, and 69,805 in a third copy. 



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

 amount to 177 ; 13,038 titles have been transcribed fourfold for this Catalogue. The 

 crowded state of the title slips in this Catalogue has rendered it necessary to relay them ; 

 23,247 title slips have been so relaid in each of two copies of this Catalogue. 



(f.) List of the Books of Reference in the Readitig Room. — 368 titles have been wiitten 

 for the interleaved copy of this list, in order to record the changes made in the books of 

 reference by the addition of new works, and the exchange of old for new editions. 



III. — The number of volumes bound is 14,338 in 11,726, including 2,203 Pamphlets. 

 The number of volumes repaired is 1,005. 481 Maps have been mounted, and 171 re- 

 paired. 



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

 General Library from the Reading Room is 213,832 ; to those of the Royal Library, 

 11,608 ; to those of the Grenville Library, 904; and to the Closets in which books are kept 

 from day today for the use of the Readers, 166,227. Adding the number of volumes 

 returned to the shelves of the Reading Room, about 766,000, the whole amounts to 

 1,158,671, or 3,967 per diem. The number for the year 1859 was 1,027,258, or 3,506 per 

 diem. 



2. The number of Readers has been 127,763 ; on an average 437 per diem, the Reading 

 Room having been kept open 292 days; each Reader has consulted, on an average, nine 

 volumes per diem. 



V. Additions. — 1. The number of volumes added to the Library (comprising 216 re- 

 ceived under the International Copyright Treaties) amounts to 30,949 (including Music, 

 Maps, and Newspapers), of which 1,403 were presented, 23,086 purchased, and 6,460 

 acquired by copyright. 



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