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



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



Objects added, in the Year 1805. 



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 the back of each volume ; also on the title and 

 entry in tiie Catalogue. The total number of these press-marks amounts to 163,897. 



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

 references written for this Catalogue amounts to 12,839. The number of titles tran- 

 scribed fourfold for this Catalogue is 30,486, and of index slips prepared and transcribed, 

 506; 34,635 title slips, and 498 index slips have been incorporated into each of the three 

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

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

 each copy 41,848 title slips and 686 index slip*, and to add to each copy 1,269 new leaves; 

 22,663 title slips of letter L (including 12,204 new titles) have been laid down in one 

 copy of this Catalogue, and 23,124 title slips in a second and thiid copy; ofeacli of the 

 last two sets, 12,304 were new titles. 



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

 this Catalogue is 47,143. The number of titles transcribed fourfold for this Catalogue is 

 12,922, besides 552 index slips prepared and transci'ibed ; 17,402 title slips, and 541 index 

 slips have been incorporated into each of the three copies of this Catalogue. In order to 

 maintain the alphabetical arrangement, 24,648 title slips, and 515 index slips, have been 

 removed and re-inserted in each copy ; 895 leaves have been added to each copy. 



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

 is 738. 



(c.) Maps. — The titles and cross-references written for Maps amount to 6,209. The 

 number of titles transcribed fourfold for this Catalogue is 6,603. The number of titles 

 incorporated into each of three copies of this Catalogue is 6,735. In order to maintain the 

 alphabetical arrangement, 6,247 title slips have been removed and re-inserted ; 320 new 

 leaves have been added to each copy. 



(d.) 31usic Catalogue. — The titles and cross-references written for this Catalogue 

 amount to 4,G08; -501 titles have been transcribed fourfold for this Catalogue. The 

 number of titles incorporated into each of three copies of this Catalogue is 3,202. In order 

 to maintain the alphabetical arrangement, 2,350 title slips have been removed and re- 

 inserted; 126 new leaves have bten added to each copy. 



(e.) Chinese Catalogue. — The titles and cross-references written for this Catalogue 

 amount to 1,071. 



(f.) Heb)ew Catalogue. — The titles and cross-references written for this Catalogue 

 amount to 905. The printing of the Catalogue has proceeded as far as signature 3 L. 



(g.) Carhonic Hand Catalogue. — 53,546 title slips of the fourth transcript of the 

 General Catalogue have been mounted on cartridge paper, 64,800 have been arranged 

 according to the press-marks, and 66,520 have been incorporated into the general 

 series: 6,750 title slips of the fourth copy of the Map Catalogue have been mounted 

 on cartridge paper. Of the Music Catalogue 5,894 title shps of the fourth copy have been 

 mounted on cartridge paper, 22,998 have been arrant, ed for incorporation, and 21,350 have 

 been incorporated into the general series. 



(h.) List of Books of Reference in the Reading lioom.— 'Yhe number of alteiations 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 192 in each. 



111. —The number of volumes bound is about 12,200 in 10,900, including about 3,300 pam- 

 phlets. The number of volumes repaired is about 740. About 620 Maps have been mounted. 

 The numbers in this part of the return are given apuroximativeiy, the late binder, who was 

 dismissed in the course of tlie year 1865, having refused to afford any information upon the 

 subject, and it being therefore impossible to control them by his books, as has been hitherto 

 done, 



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

 General Library from the Heading Room is 201,117; to those of the Royal Library, 

 8,376 ; to those of the Grenville Library, 988 ; and to the closets in which books are kept 

 from day today for the use of the Readers, 142,766. Adding the number of volumes 

 returned to the shelves of the Reading Room, about 840,057, the whole amounts to 

 1,193,304, or 4,158 per diem. 



2. The 



