ACCOUNTS, &C. OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM. 



VIT. — PKOGRESS made in the Cataloguing and Arrangement, and Account 

 of Objects added, in the Year 1869. 



Department of Printed Books. 



I. Arranfjement. — The works added to the Collection during the year have been placed 

 on the shelves of the Library according to the system of classification adopted in the 

 Museum. 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-slip and entiy in the 

 Catalogue. The total number of these " Press-marks " amounts to 97,633, and of Labels 

 to 30,204. 



II. Cataloguing : — (a.) 71,04H title-slips have been written for the various Catalogues 

 (the term "title-slip " applying equally to a main-title and a cross-reference). Of these, 

 64,376 were written for the New General and Supplementary Catalogue, and 16,672 for 

 the separate Catalogues of Music and of the several Oriental Collections. 



(6.) Transcription and Incorporation. — In the first or amalgamated portion of the Cata- 

 logue from AtoM, the number of title-slips transcribed fourfold amounts to 38,277, and of 

 index-slips prepared and transcribed fourfold to facilitate consultation of the volumes, to 

 258. 35,513 transcripts of title-slips have been incorporated into each of three copies of this 

 portion of the Catalogue. The first copy of 19,267 transcripts — Mc to Mitt — (of which 

 7,075 were new ones), the second copy of 19,004 transcripts (of which 6,150 were 

 new ones), and the third co])y of 25,938 transcripts (of which 6,050 were new ones), have 

 been laid down in the several volumes. 



(c. ) In the second or supplementary portion of the Catalogue from N to Z, the number 

 of title-slips transcribed fourfold amounts to 14,541, and of index-slips prepared and 

 transcribed fourfold to 794. 12,257 transcripts of title-slips have been incorporated into 

 each of three copies of this portion of the Catalogue. 



(rf.) Music Catalogue. — 11,825 title-slips have been written, and 8,640 transcribed 

 fourfold. 27,650 transcripts of title-slips have been incorporated into each of three copies 

 of this Catalogue. 



(e.) Oriental Catalogue (including all works in Oriental languages other than Chinese, 

 Japanese, and Hebrew). — The number of title-slips written is 2,034. 



(/.) Chinese and Japanese Catalogue. — 373 title-slips have been written for Chines© 

 books, and 2,112 for Japanese books, making a total of 2,485. 



ig.) Hebrew Catalogue. — 328 title-slips have been written, and 130 transcribed fourfold. 



(A.) Carbonic Hand- Catalogue. — Of that copy of the fourfold transcript of the title-slips 

 used to form a Hand-Catalogue, by arranging the title-slips in the order of the press- 

 marks, 51,381 slips have been mounted on cartridge paper, and 90,500 arranged pre- 

 paratory to incorporation, and 27,350 have been incorporated in the general series. 



(J..) List of Books of Reference in the Reading Room. — The number of alterations and 

 additions in the interleaved copies of this List and in the Hand-Catalogue of the same 

 collection, made to record the changes in the books of reference by the addition of new 

 works and the exchange of old for new editions, amounts to 820 in each of the interleaved 

 copies, and 273 in the Hand-Catalogue. 



III. Binding. — The number of volumes sent to be bound in the course of the year 

 amounts to 15,486; and in consequence of the frequent adoption of the plan of binding 

 two or more volumes in one, the number of bound volumes returned is 11,820. 1,150 

 pamphlets have also been bound, and 279 volumes repaired. 



IV. Reading Room Service. — The number of volumes returned to the General 

 Library, from use in the Reading Room, is 262,027; to the Royal Library, 10,780; to 

 the Grenville Library, 1,139, and to the closets, in which books are kept from day to 

 day for the use of readers, 200,060. Adding the estimated number of volumes returned 

 to the shelves of the Reading Room, about 839,826, the whole amounts to 1,313,832, or 

 about 4,499 for each of the 292 days during which the room was open to the public. 



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