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



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



Objects added, in the Year 18G3. 



Department of Printed Books. 



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

 entry in the Catalogue. The total number of these press-marks amounts to 138,501. 



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

 references written for this Catalogue amounts to 16,552, The number of titles tran- 

 scribed fourfold for this Catalogue is 21,004, and of index slips 1,489; 17,047 title slips 

 and 1,482 index slips have been incorporated into each of three copies of this Catalogue, 

 from letter A to G, inclusive. This incorporation has rendered it necessary, in order to 

 maintain the alphabetical arrangemenf, to remove and re-insert in each copy 26,261 title 

 slips, and 393 index slips, and to add to each copy 1,738 new leaves : 39,905 title slips 

 of letter H (including 15,a94 new titles), have been laid down in one copy of this Cata- 

 logue, 18,602 title slips in a second copy, and 14,691 in a third copy; of each of the 

 last two sets, 13,973 were new titles. 



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

 this Catalogue is 51,847, besides 303 for the Hebrew Catalogue ; in all, 52,160. The number 

 of titles transcribed fourfold for this Catalogue is 45,841, besides 422 index slips; 24,175 

 title slips, and 625 index slips have been incorporated into each of three copies of this 

 Catalogue. In order to maintain the alphabetical arrangement, 33,585 title shps have been 

 removed and re-inserted in each copy ; 1,696 leaves have been added to each copy. 



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

 is 248. 



(c.) Maps. — The new titles and cross-references written for Maps amount to 6,063- 

 The number of titles transcribed fourfold for this Catalogue is 3,973. 'Ilie number of titles 

 incorporated into eath ot three copies of this Catalogue is 6,057. In order to maintain 

 the alphabetical arrangement, 4,167 title slips have been removed and re-inserted; 199 new 

 leaves have been added to each copy. 



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

 amount to 6,315; 4,260 titles have been transcribed fourfold for this Catalogue. 



(e.) Carbonic Hand Catalogue. — 37,937 title slips of the fourth transcript of the 

 General Catalogue have been mounted on cartridge paper, and arranged according to the 

 press-marks, and 36,370 title slips so mounted, have been incorporated into the general 

 series : 6,057 title slips of the fourth copy of the Map Catalogue have been mounted and 

 arranged in like manner. 



(f.) List of Books of Reference in the Reading 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 new editions, amounts to 282 in each. 



III. — The number of volumes bound is 16,314 in 14,080, including 3,160 pamphlets. 

 The number of volumes repaired is 1,793 : 1,316 Maps have been mounted. 



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

 General Library from the Reading Room is 216,487; to those of the Royal Library, 

 9,675 ; to tliose of the Grenville Library, 985 ; and to the closets in which books are kept 

 from day to day for the use of the Readers, 160,337. Adding the number of volumes 

 returned to the shelves of the Reading Room, about 836,000, the whole amounts to 

 1,222,484, or 4,215 per diem. 



2. The number of Readers has been 107,821 ; on an average 372 per diem, the Reading: 

 Room having been kept open 290 days; each Reader has consulted, on an average, 11 

 volumes per diem. 



V. Additions. — 1. The number of volumes added to the Library (comprising 268 re- 

 ceived under the International Copyright Treaties) amounts to 36,262 (including Music, 

 Atlases, and Newspapers), of which 1,501 were presented, 28,220 purchased, and 6,541 

 acquired by copyright. 



2. The number of parts of volumes (comprising 652 received under the International 

 Copyright Treaties) is 39,733 (including Atlases and Music), of which 565 were presented, 

 24,413 purchased, and 14,755 acquired by copyright. The total number of Newspapers 



acquired 



