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



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



Objects added, in the Year 1862. 



Department of Printed Books. 



I. 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 tlie back of each volume ; also, on the title and 

 entry in the Catalogue. The total number of these press-marks amounts to 1-20,129. 



II. Cata/ognimr : — (a.) JYeiv General Catalogue. — The number of titles and cross- 

 references written for this Catalogue amounts to 16,966. The number of titles tran- 

 scribed fourfold for this Catalogue is 3,736, and of index slips 131; 26,751 title slips 

 and 125 index slips have been incorporated into each of three copies of this Catalogue. 

 This incorporation has rendert-d it necessary to remove and re-insert 37,013 title slips, and 

 to add to each copy 809 new leaves. 



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

 this Catalogue is 52,340, besides 127 for the Hebrew Catalogue ; in all, 52,467. The number 

 of titles transcribed fourfold for this Catalogue is 40,365, besides 1,045 index slips; 29,806 

 title slips, and 796 index slips have been mcorporated into three copies of this Catalogue. 

 In order to maintain the alphabetical arrangement, 30,324 title slips have been removed 

 and re-inserted in each copy, and 1,055 leaves added to each copy. 



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

 is 78. 



(c.) Caihonic Hand Catalogues. — 47,035 title slips of the fourth transcript have been 

 mounted on cartridge paper for the Carbc nic Hand Catalogue of the prmted books, and 

 119,525 title slips so mounted, have been arranged and incor|iorated into the general 

 serits : 76,446 title sli|is of the fourth copy have been mounted on cartridge paper, and 

 arranged as a carbonic hand catalogue of the collection' of maps. 



(d.) Maps. — The new titles and cross-references written for maps amount to 4,697. 

 The number of titles transcribed fourfold for this Catalogue is 6,764. Ihe number of titles 

 incorfiorated into each oi' three copies of this Catalogue is 10,626. This incorporation has 

 rendered it necessary to remove and re-insert in each of these thiee copies 5,807 title slips, 

 and to add to each copy 201 leaves. 



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

 amount to 6,263 ; 3,873 titles have been transcribed fourfold for this Catalogue. 



(f.) List of ihe Boi'ks of Reference in the Reading Room. — 324 titles have been written 

 for this list avid inserted in each of three interleaved copies of the same catalogue, in order 

 to record the changes made in the books of reference by the addition of new works, and 

 the exchange ol old for new editions. 



III.' — The number of volumes bound is 14,749 in 12,688, including 2,679 pamphlets. 

 The number of volumes repaired is 1,393: 761 JN'laps have been mounted. 



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

 General Library from the Heading Room is 229,139; to those of the Royal Library, 

 10,069 ; to those of the Grenville Library, 940 ; and to the closets in which books are kept 

 from day today for the use of the Readers, 173,183. Adding the number of volumes 

 returned to the shelves of the Reading Room, about 912,000, the whole amounts to 

 1,325,331, or 4,539 per diem. The number for the year 1861 was 1,269,206, or 4,376 per 

 diem. 



2. The number of Readers has been 122,497 ; on an average 419 per diem, the Reading: 

 Room having been kept open 292 days; each Reader has consulted, on an average, 10 

 volumes per diem. 



V. Additions. — 1. The number of volumes added to the Library (includins 339 re- 

 ceived under the International Copyright Treaties) amounts to 30,362 (including Music, 

 Maps, and Newspapers), of which 1,520 were presented, 22,830 purchased, and 6,012 

 acquired by copyright. 



2. The number of parts of volumes (including 492 received under the International Copy- 

 right Treaties) is 32,020 (including Maps and Music), of which 591 were presented, 14,347 

 purchased, and 17,082 acquired by copyright. The total number of Newspapers acquired 

 is 1,027. Of these, 738 (viz., 211 published in London, and 527 in the country) have been 

 received from the Inland Revenue Otfice in England, 140 from the brancli of that office in 

 Ireland, and 130 from the branch of the same office in Scotland. One has been presented, 

 and 18 purchased. 



3. The 



