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



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



Objects added, in the Year 1864. 



Department of Printed Books. 



1. W'>rks added to the Collection during the year have been placed on the 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 tiile and 

 entry in the Catalogue. The total number of these press-marks amounts to 151,75!). 



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

 references written for this Catalogue amounts to 13,029. The number of titles tran- 

 scribed fourfold for this Catalogue i? 40,070, and of index slips prepared and transcribed, 

 729; 19,305 title slips and 666 index slips have been incorporated into each of three 

 copies of this Catalogue, from letter A to H, inclu-ive. This incorporation has rendered 

 it necessary, in order to maintain the alphabetical arrangement, to remove and re-insert in 

 each copy 18,820 title slips and 45 index slip?, and to add to each copy 541 new leaves: 

 61,355 title shps of letters 1 and K (including 22,951 new titles), have been ifiid down in 

 one copy of this Catalogue, and 66,138 title slips in a second and third copy; of eacli of 

 the last two sets, 22,252 were new lilies. 



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

 this Catalogue is 50,844, besides 212 for the Hebrew Catalogue ; in all, 51,056. The number 

 of titles transcribed fourfold for this Catalogue is 24,213, besides 605 index slips pre- 

 pared and transcribed ; 23,050 title slips, and 598 index slips have been incorporated mto 

 each of three copies of this Catalogue. In order to maintain the alphabetical arrangement, 

 27,741 title slips have been removed and re-inserted in each copy ; 957 leaves have been 

 added to each copy. 



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

 is 99, and in that of the Academies, 421. 



(c.) Maps. — The new titles and cross-references written for JVIaps amount to 6,599. 

 The number of titles transcribed fourfold for this Catalogue is 5,563. The number of title 

 slips incorj)orated into each of three copies of this Catalogue is 5,930. In order to maintain 

 the alphabetical arrangement, 3,940 title slips have been removed and re-inserted ; 134 new 

 leaves have been added to each copy. 



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

 amount to 4,070 ; 4,415 titles have been transcribed fourfold for this Catalogue. I'he 

 number of title slips incorporated into each of three copies of this Catalogue is 6,746. In 

 order to maintain the alphabetical arrangement, 2,379 title slips have been removed and 

 re-entered; 139 new leaves have bien added to each copy. 



(e.) Carbonic Hand Catalogue. — 64,467 title slips of the fourth transcript of the 

 General Catalogue have been mounted on cartridge paper, 75,099 have been arranged 

 according to the press-marks, and 74,959 have been incorporated into the general 

 series: 5,800 title slips of the fourth copy of the Map Catalogue have been mounted, 

 and 2,500 arranged in like manner, and 6,704 title shps o\' the fourth copy of the Music 

 Catalogue have been mounted on cartridge paper. 



{L) List of Boi'Tis oj Reference in the Reading i?oo?H.— The number of alteiations and 

 additions made in tlie 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 lor new editions, amounts to 339 in each. 



(g.) Hebtew Catalogue. — The titles of this Catalogue, about 15,000 in number, are now 

 prepared for printing. The Catalogue is in the press, and is printed as far as the com- 

 mencement of letier C. 



III. — The number of volumes bound is 13,816 in 11,655, including 2,210 pamphlets. 

 The number of volumes repaired is 667 : 644 Maps have been mounted. 



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

 General Library from the Heading Room is 211,239; to those of the Royal Library, 

 9,354 ; to those of the Grenville Library, 993 ; and to the closets in which books are kept 

 from day today for the use of the Readers, 151,177. Adding the number of volumes 

 returned to the shelves of the Reading Room, about 847,524, the whole amounts to 

 1,220,287, or 4,150 per diem. 



2. The number of Readers has been 105,899 ; on an average 360 per diem, the Reading 

 Room having been kept open 294 days; each Reader has consulted, on an average, 11 

 volumes per diem. 



V. Additions. — 1. The number of volumes added to the Library (comprising 221 re- 



ceived 



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