ACCOUNTS, &C., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM. 



VIL — PROGEESS made in the Cataloguing and Arkangemknt, and Account 

 of 0J3JECTS ADDED, in the Year 1871. 



Department of Printed Books. 



I. Arrangement. — 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 106,132, of Labels to 

 36,466, and of renewed Labels to 8,843. 



II. Cataloguing : — (a.) 75,471 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, 

 53,114 were written for the New General and Supplementary Catalogue, and 22,357 for 

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



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

 logue from AtoP, the number of title-slips transcribed fourfold amounts to 57,585, and of 

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

 560. 49,926 transcripts of title-slips, and 560 of index-slips, have been incorporated into 

 each of three copies of this portion of the Catalogue. The fii"st copy of 36,900 transcripts, 

 forming portions of letters N, O, P, (of which 12,890 were new ones), the second copy 

 of 36,789 transcripts (of which 12,903 were new ones^, the third copy of 39,291 tran- 

 scripts (of which 12,789 were new ones), have been laid down in the volumes. 



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

 of title-slips transcribed fourfold amounts to 8,316. 13,398 transcripts of title-slips have 

 been incorporated into each of three copies of this portion of the Catalogue. 



(c?.) Music Catalogue. — 20,080 title-slips have been written, and 9,718 title-slips have 

 been transcribed fourfold for this Catalogue. 



(e.) Hebrew Catalogue. — 94 title-slips have been written, and 326 transcribed fourfold 

 for this Catalogue. 



(y.) Oriental Catalogue (including all works in Oriental languages other than Hebrew, 

 Chinese, and Japanese). — The number of title-slips written is 1,241, and 523 have 

 been transcribed fourfold. 5,246 titles have been specially revised. 



{g.) Chinese and Japanese Catalogue. — 595 title-slips have been written for Chinese 

 printed books, and 342 for manuscripts. 5 title-slips have also been written for Japanese 

 books. 2,826 titles have been revised for press. 



(A.) Carbonic Hand- Catalogues. — 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, 60,870 slips have been mounted on cartridge paper, and 76,450 arranged pre- 

 paratory to incorporation, and 86,090 have been incorporated in the general series. 



{i.) 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 277 in each of the interleaved 

 copies, and 138 in the Hand-Catalogue. Since the last Annual Return the new edition 

 of this List has been published, and two copies, mounted on larger paper, with the press- 

 marks added, have been bound, and placed in the Reading Room for the use of the 

 readers. 



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

 amounts to 9,243 ; 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 7,570. 5,650 

 pamphlets have also been bound, and 280 volumes repaired. 



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

 Library, from use in the Reading Room, is 267,038 ; to the Royal Library, 10,286 ; to 

 the Grenville Library, 2,313; and to the presses, in which books are kept from day to 

 day for the use of the readers, 191,067. Adding the estimated number of volumes 

 returned to the shelves of the Reading Room, about 832,155, the whole amounts to 



164. a 4 1,302,859, 



