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



3. The Maps, Charts, and Plans amount to 1,229 in 3,990 slieets; tlie Atlases to 36 

 complete, and (5 parts of Atlases in course of publication. Of the Maps and Charts, 

 57 were presented, 923 purchased, and 249 acquired by copyright. Of the Atlases, 1 was 

 presented, 14 purchased, and 21 complete (including 2 received under the International 

 Copyright Treaties), and 6 parts of Atlases were acquired by copyright. 



4. The number of pieces of Music, each comprising a complete work (including 326 

 received under the International Copyright Treaties) is 2,901, of which 101 were purchased, 

 and 2,474 acquired by copyright : 437 parts and numbers of works in progress have 

 been acquired by copyright, and also 1,084 works, not included among the pieces of 

 music, of which 944 were purchased, and 140 acquired by copyright. 



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

 cellaneous pieces, not enumerated above) is 73,929, of which 1,191 were received under the 

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

 Photograplis, &c., and comprising 603 received under the International Copyright Treaties) 

 29,17.5 are com])lete works. Of the complete works, 19,451 were purchased, 708 |)re- 

 sented, and 9,016 acquired by copyright. 



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

 by the hand stamp, 349,055, and by Sloper's puncturing stamp, used fur newspapers and 

 playbills, Iu0,9o5 altogetlier 500,010 stamps. 



J. Winter Jones. 



Department of Manuscripts. 



1. The Index to the Catalogue of Additions for the years 1846 and 1847, has been com- 

 pleted and sent to pre^r. 



2. The Catalogues of Additional Manuscripts for 1855 and 1856 have been conlinued to 

 No. 21,407, and ihe former is nearly completed. 



3. 'I'lie Egerton Manuscripts have been descriljed in detail, from ISo. 1,789 to No. 1,850. 



4. The entries in the Hand Ciitalogue of the Additional Manuscripts placed in the 

 Reading Room, have l>een conlinued from No. 24,098 to No. 24^435, up to the end of 

 April 1862. 



5. The Additional Chnrtevs and Rolls have been described from No, 4,870 to No. 8,401, 

 and from No. 9,463 to No. 9,622, and the slips revised and entered in the General Cata- 

 logue (boih in the Department and Reading Room copies), from No. 4,659 to No. 5,444. 

 The Kgerton Charters iiave been described from JNo. 113 to No. 127. 



6. The sheets from 6 K to 7 1 of the Appendix to the Catalogue of Arabic Manuscripts 

 have been revised for press. Fifty-one Arabic, 118 Persian, and 20 Turkisl) Muauscripts, 

 have been described in detail for the General Catalogues of those classes, and, in a briefer 

 form, for the Caialogues of Additions, 1860-1862. 



7. Three hundred and forty-seven Syriac Manuscripts have been re-collated and. partly 

 re-arranged, and copious notes taken of their contents. Six Sabian Manuscripts have been 

 described. 



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

 end of the year. 



9. The General Index to the Additional and Egerton Manusci'ipts, from 1847 to 1860 

 inclusive, has been enlarged and completed, and a lair transcript is now in piogiess forthe 

 useof the Reading Room. The Indexes to the Harleian MSS. 4,712, 4,713, 7,003-7,006, 

 7,012, 7,013, 7,502, and 7,344-7,351, iiave been transcribed in:o the respective volumes. 



10. The Register of Donations to the Department has been kept up to the end of 1862. 



11. Transcripts have been made, for the use of the Reading Room, of the Catalogue of 

 Chinese Manuscripts, of the Appendix to the old Royal Collection of MSS. (vvuh an Index 

 added), and of the Catalogue of Egerion Charters (with an Index added). The transcripts 

 of the Catalogues of Cottonian and Harleian Charters are still in progress. 



12. The arrangement of the Papers of the late Rev. Joseph Hunter has been completed, 

 as also of a large portion of the Topographical and other papers of Caley and Devon, all 

 recently acquired. The contents of MSS. Cott. Galba a. xxi., Otho c. xiv. and d. xiii., 

 Add. 24,631 and Eg. 1803-1805, have been re-arranged. 



13. The Additional Manuscripts have been arranged, numbered and registered, from No. 

 24,334 to No. 24,999 (including the additions to the end of 1862); and bound, repaired, 

 lettered and stamped, from No. 20,034 to No. 20,680 (end of the Gualterio Papers), No. 

 23,341 to No. 23,606 (end of Taylor Collection), No. 23,780 to No. 23,878 (the Robmson 

 Papers), and from No. 24,023 to No. 24,479. 



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