ACCOUNTS, ESTIMATES, &C. OF THE BKITISH MUSEUM. 1 1 



•2. The number of parts of volumes (comprising 228 received under the International Copy- 

 right Treaties) is 32,655 (including Maps ;ind Music), of which 892 were presented, 15,508 

 purchased, and 16,255 acquired by copyright. The total number of Newspapers acquired 

 IS 1,116, besides single numbers of l,04u American Newspapers. Of these, 707, (viz., 198 

 published in London, and 509 in the country) have been received from the Inland Revenue 

 Office in England, 118 from the branch of that o'Hce in Ireland, and 131 from the branch 

 of the same office in Scotland. Six have been presented and 154, and 1,035 of the single 

 numbers, have been purchased. 



8. The Maps, Charts, and Plans (including 1 map in 4 sheets acquired under the Inter- 

 national Copyright Treaties) amount to 699 in 2,919 sheets; the Atlases to 34 complete, 

 and 8 parts of Atlases in course of publication. Of the Maps and Charts, 20 were 

 presented, 365 purchased, and 314 (including 1 acquired under the International Copyright 

 Treaties) acquired by copyright. Of the Atlases 19 were purchased, and 15 complete, and 

 8 parts of Atlases, acquired by copyright. 



4. The number of pieces of Music, each comprising a complete work (including 271 

 received under the International Copyright Treaties) is 3,926, of winch 40 were purchased, 

 20 presented, and 3^66 acquired by copyright : 582 parts and numbers of works in 

 progress have been acquired by copyright, and also 268 works, not included among the 

 pieces of music, of which 87 were purchased, and 181 acquired under the Copyright Act, 



5. The total number of articles received (including Broadsides, Playbills, Caricatures, 

 with Engravings, Drawin';s, Letters, &c., added to Illustrated Woiks, and other mis- 

 cellaneous pieces, not enumerated above) is 89,325, of which 813 were received under the 

 International Copyright Treaties. Of the articles received (exclusive of Broadsides, Cari- 

 catures, &c., and comprising 477 received under the International Copyright Treaties) 

 34,589 are complete works. Of the complete works, 23,097 were purchased, 1,663 pre- 

 sented, and 9,829 acquired by copyright. 



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

 308,806. 



J. Winter Jones. 



Department of Manuscripts. 



1. The sheets Y Y — 3 D of the Catalogue of Additions for 1847 have been printed off, 

 and complete it, with the exception of the Index. 



2. The third volume of the Catalogue of Maps and Topography has been finished at the 

 press, with Additions and Corrections to the two preceding volumes. 



3. The Catalogue of Additional Manuscripts for the years 1855 and 1856 has been con- 

 tinued from No. 20,953 to No. 20,985, and from No. 21,191 to No. 21,271. Descriptions 

 have also been wiitten of Nos. 20,241-20,686 (Gualterio Papers, acquired in 1854), and of 

 130 other volume-, wanted to complete the years 1849-1851. 



4. Many corrections have been made in the Manuscript Catalogue of the Sloane Collec- 

 tion, and two copies of the printed Catalogue have been laid down in numerical order to 

 facilitate reference. 



5. The entries in the Hand Catalogue of the Additional Manuscripts placed in the 

 Reading Room, have been continued from No. 23,239 to No. 24,097, up to the end of 

 March 1861. 



6. The Additional Charters and Rolls have been described from No, 4,541 to No. 4,875, 

 and the shps revised and entered in the General Catalogue, from No. 4,341 to No. 4,658. 

 The Indexes to Vol. II. of this Catalogue have been completed, and transcribed fair into 

 the Department and Reading Room copies. 



7. One hundred and eighty Arabic and 52 Persian Manuscripts have been described for 

 the General Catalogues of those classes ; all of which, together with 124 others, have been 

 described in a briefer form, for the Catalogues of Additions, 1856-1860. 



8. Tiie Syrlac Manuscripts have been collated anew from No. 12,133 to No. 12,162, as 

 also 29 others in connexion with them ; 25 have likewise been briefly described for the 

 Catalogue of Additions. 



9. The General Classed Inventory of the Oriental Manuscripts has been kept up to the 

 end of the year. 



10. The General Index to the Additional Manuscripts, from 1857 to 1860, both inclu- 

 sive, is nearly completed, and large additions have been made to the Index, from 1847 to 

 1856, by the insertion of references to above 80 volumes of miscellaneous Autograph Letters. 

 Indexes have also been made to MSS. Harl. 4,712, 4713, and to Egerton, 913, 914; 

 and the Indexes to MSS. Harl. 6987-6990, 6992-7002, transcribed fair into the respective 

 volumes. 



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