ACCOUNTS, &C., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM. 



VII. — PROGRESS made in the Cataloguing and Arrangement, and Account 

 of Objects added, in the Year 1870. 



Department of Printed Books. 



I. Arranpevient. — 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 entry in the 

 Catalogue. The total number of these "Press-marks" amounts to 109,506, of Labels to 

 38,143, and of renewed Labels to 12,830. 



II. Cataloguing :—{ a.') 73,745 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, 

 52,508 were written for the New General and Supplementary Catalogue, and 21,237 for 

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



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

 logue from AtoN, the number of title-slips transcribed fourfold amounts to 46,617, and of 

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

 238. 35,768 transcripts of title-slips have been incorjjorated into each of three copies of this 

 portion of the Catalogue. The first copy of 39,123 transcripts, forming portions of letters 

 M. N. (of which 13,233 were new ones), the second copy of 35,942 transcripts (of which 

 13,439 were new ones^, the third copy of 35,943 transcripts (of which 13,440 were new 

 ones), have been laid down in the several volumes. 



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

 of title-slips transcribed fourfold amounts to 14,002, and of index-slips jjrepared and 

 transcribed fourfold to 377. 10,566 transcripts of title-slips have been incorporated into 

 each of three copies of this portion of the Catalogue. 



{d.') 3fusic Catalogue. — 18,578 title-slips have been written. 8,865 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 1,063, and 2,000 have been 

 specially revised. 



(f.) Chinese and Japanese Catalogue. — 1,585 title-slips have been written for Chinese 

 books, and 11 for Japanese books, making a total of 1,596. 1,708 titles have been revised 

 for press, as it is intended to print a Catalogue of the Chinese and Japanese books and 

 manuscripts. 



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

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

 marks, 38,392 slips have been mounted on cartridge paper, and 24,500 arranged pre- 

 paratory to incorporation, and 19,600 have been incorporated in the general series. 



For the Music Hand-Catalogue, 37,021 title-slips of the fourth transcript have been 

 mounted on cartridge paper, and 41,821 arranged prejiaratory to incorporation. 77,565 

 have been incorporated into the general series. 



(h.) List of Books of Reference in the Beading Boom. — 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 1,348 in each of the interleaved 

 copies, and 449 in the Hand-Catalogue. A new edition of the List of the books of 

 reference, which has been carefully revised, has been printed, and will be issued to the 

 public early in 1871. The books on the shelves of the Reading Room have been ex- 

 amined every morning, and the unauthorised removal of any volume immediately 

 detected. 



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

 amounts to 16,837 ; and, in consequence of the frequent adoption of the plan of bindino- 

 two or more volumes in one, the number of bound volumes returned is 8,387. 5,942 

 pamphlets have also been bound, and 475 volumes repaired. In order to afford further 

 protection to the Library of Reference in the Reading Room, 11,009 stamps have been 

 impressed on the sides of the volumes. 



0.4. a 4 IV. Reading 



