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



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



Objects added, in the Year 1866. 



Department of Printed Books. 



The Works added to the Collection during the year were arranged on the shelves 

 according to the system of classification adopted in tlie Museum. The press-marks, indica- 

 ting their respective localities, were noted in the inside and on the outside of each volume, 

 and on the main-tiiies and cross-references written for each work. The number of these 

 indications affixed with the addition of separate entries of press-marks in the catalogue 

 amounted to 137,160. 



II. Cataloguing: — (a.) Neiv General Catalogue. — The number of titles Ca term 

 including both main-titles and cross-references,) which weie written for this Catalogue 

 amounted to 9,321. The number of title-slips transcribed fourfold for insertion 

 amounted to 43,923. The difference in the numbers arises from the circumstance that the 

 title-slips for the books added during the past year were incorporated in the New General 

 Catalogue, whenever their headines belonged to the earlier portion of the alphabet 

 from A to L. The number of index-slips prepared and transcribed to facilitate consultation 

 of the Catalogues was 895. 



28,106 title-shps, and 609 index-slips were incorporated into each of the three copies of 

 this Catalogue, from letter A to L, mcluMve. This incorporation rendered it necessary, 

 in order to nuiintain the alphabeticid arrangement, to remove and re-insert in each copy 

 33,440 tith -slips and 225 index-slips, and to add to each copy 1,111 new leaves to receive 

 new entries. 29,840 title-slips of letter L (including 16,671 new titles) were laid down 

 in one copy of tlii:i Catalogue, 38,398 title-slips (including 27,460 new titles) in a 

 second copy, and 38,825 title-slips (including 27,287 new titles) in a third. 265 index- 

 slips of the letter L were laid down in each set of ihe Catalogue. 



(b.) Supplementary Catalogue. — The number of titles written for this Catalogue, 

 extending from L to Z, was 49,925, the whole of which, with a few casual exceptions, 

 belonged to the recent acquisitions of the Depariment. The number transcribed fourfold 

 for insertion was 20,827, and 370 index-slips v.ere also prepared and transcribed ; 17,595 

 title-slips and 384 index-slips were incorporated into each of the three copies of the 

 Catalogue. In order to maintain the alphabetical arrangement, 27,006 title-slips, and 979 

 inde.x-slips, were removed and re-inserted in each copy ; and 1,205 new leaves were added 

 to eaeh coj)y lo receive them. 



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

 was 153, and in that of Academies 242. 



(c.) Map Catalogue. — The titles written for the Catalogue of Ma])s and Charts 

 amounted to 5,653, thuse transcribed fourfold for insertion to 7,884, and those incorporated 

 into each of the three copies of the Catalogue to 7,978. In order to maintain ihe alpha- 

 betical arrangement, 6,616 title-slips were removed and re-inserted, and 325 new leaves 

 were added lo each copy to receive them. 



(d.) Music Catalogue. — The titles written amounted to 5,005, and those transcribed 

 fourfold to 292. 



(e.) Chinese Catalogue. — The titles written were in number 2,223. 



(f.) Hebrew Catalogue. — The titles written were in number 105. The printing of the 

 Catalogue was in progress throuohout the year and nearly brought to completion at its 

 close. It coujprises more than 10,000 Hebrew works, and fills a volume of about 900 

 pages. 



(g.) Caibonic Hand- Catalogues. — Of the fourth copy of the fourfold transcript of the 

 title-slips made use of to form a Hand Catalogue, 48,051 title-slips were mounted on 

 cartridge paper, 65,500 were arranged according to the press-marks, and 57,500 were 

 incorporated in the general serits: 9,003 title-sli])S relating to Maps and Charts were 

 mounted in the same way as the preceding, 23,675 were arranged, and 4,100 incorporated. 

 7,120 title-shps were incorporated in ihe Hand-Catalogue of Music. 



(h.) List of Boi'hs of Reference in the Readi)ig it'oo???.— The number of alteiations and 

 additions made in the interleaved copies of this list, and in the Hand-Catalogue of the 

 same collection, in order to record the lemovid ami substitution of different volumes, 

 amounted to 220 in each case. 



III.- — The number of volumes sent to the binder in the twelvemonth was 16,812 ; and, in 

 consequence of the plan frequently adopted of binding several volumes in one, the number 

 returned was 14,772, including 3,831 pamphlets, fhe number of volumes repaired was 

 412, and ol maps mounted 2,788. 



IV. Heading 



