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



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



Objects added, in the Year 1861. 



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 locahties, have 

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

 entry in the Catalogue. The total number of these press-marks amounts to 139,164. 



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

 references written for this Catalogue amounts to 24,701. The number of titles tran- 

 scribed fourfold for this Catalogue is 3,941, and of index slips 390; 26,693 title slips 

 and 372 index slips have been incorporated, into each of three copies of this Catalogue. 

 This incorporation has rendered it necessary, in order to maintain the alphabetical arrange- 

 ment, to remove and re-insert 31,043 titlf slips, and to add to each copy 1,028 new leaves. 



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

 this Catalogue is 47,846, besides 645 for the Hebrew Catalogue ; in all. 48,491. The number 

 of titles transcribed fourfold for this Catalogue is 51,886, besides 883 index slips; 39,724 

 title slips, and 858 index slips have been mcorporated into each of three copies of this 

 Catalogue. In order to maintain the alphabetical arrangement, 24,092 title slips have been 

 removed and re-inserted in each copy, and 1,434 leaves added to each copy. The number 

 of new entries made in the Hand Catalogue of the Periodical Publications is 491. 



(c.) Maps. — The new titles and cross-references written for maps amount to 5,267. 

 The number of titles transcribed fourfold for this Catalogue is 5,913. The number of titles 

 incorporated into each of two copies of this C;italogue is 100. 



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

 amount to 545; 274 titles have been transcribed fourfold, for this Catalogue. It being 

 necessary, owing to the crowded state of the entries, to relay the titles, 28,780 title slips, 

 including 7,034 new titles, have been laid down in one copy ; 50.010, including 14,742 new 

 titles, in a second cupy, and 23,743, including 8,140, in a third copy: 10,512 title slips, 

 including 3,145 new titles, have been laid down in each of three copies of tlie Catalogue of 

 the Authors of Words set to music. 



(e.) Carbonic Hand Catalogue. — 64,798 title slips of the fourth transcript of the General 

 Catalogue have been mounted on cartridge paper, and arrai)ged according to the press- 

 marks, and 48,335 title slips so mounted, have been incorporated into the general series: 

 62,540 title sli|)s of the fourth transcript of the Music Catalogue have been mounted and 

 arranged in a similar manner. 



(f.) List of Boi'Tis of Reference in the Heading Room. — The number of alterations 

 and additions made in the interleaved copy of this list, and also in the hand list of the 

 books of reference, in order to record the changes made in the books of reference by the 

 addition of new works, and the exchange of old for ne^ editions, amounts to 401 in each, 



III. — The number of volumes bound is 14,836 in 12,610, including 2,222 Pamphlets. 

 The number of volumes repaired is 1,279: 683 Maps have been mounted, and 142 

 lettered. 



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

 General Library from the Readinsr Room is 229,514; to those of the Royal Library, 

 10,850 ; to those of the Grenville Library, 921 ; and to the closets in which books are kept 

 from day today for the use of the Readers, 193,921. Adding the number of volumes 

 returned to the shelves of the Readinij Room, about 834,000, the whole amounts to. 

 1,269,206, or 4,376 per diem. The number for the year 1860 was 1,158,571, or 3,967 per 

 diem. 



2. The number of Readers has been 130,410 ; on an average 450 per diem, the Reading 

 Room having been kept open 290 days; each Reader has consulted, on an average, 9^ 

 volumes per diem. 



V. Additions. — 1. The number of volumes added to the Library (comprising 309 re- 

 ceived under the International Copyright Treaties) amounts to 35,579 (including Music, 

 Maps, and Newspapers), of which 710 were presented, 28,719 purchased, and 6,150 

 acquired by copyright. 



2. The 



