10 ACCOUNTS, ,?cC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM. 



Department of Manuscripts. 



The preparation of a Class-Catalogue of the Manuscripts, from the existing printed 

 and manuscript catalogues of the various collections, has been continued as follows : — 



The section of Greek General Literature has been arranged and laid down. The 

 division of Greek Manuscripts is now complete, in four volumes. 



Division of History. — The slips for English Historical Collections have been 

 arranged and laid down. Those for Universal History and works relating to Scot- 

 land, Ireland, and Wales, and Foreign Counti'ies, have been corrected by the manu- 

 scrijjts, arranged and laid down. The whole division is complete, in three volumes. 



State Papers. — The slips of Individual Papers have been sorted chronologically 

 under the heads of Letters and Papers. The section of Individual Letters has been 

 arranged and laid down, for the British (Domestic and Foreign) series, from the 

 earliest time to the year 1525, and from 1547 to 1558 ; and for the British (Foreign) 

 series, from 1558 to 1570. 



Epistolography and Privatf Correspondence. — The sections of Forms of Letters 

 and Collected Letters have been arranged and laid down. The slips for Individual 

 Letters have been sorted into centuries, and those for the alphabetical series Ato G 

 laid down to the end of the 16th century, under separate heads of British and 

 Foreign. 



Biography. — Additional references have been prepared from slips relating to more 

 than one person or family ; and the slips arranged and laid down from A to K of the 

 alpliabetical series. 



Hercldiy and Geiiealor/y. —The sections of General Treatises; Tournaments; 

 Ceremonials ; English and Foreign Pedigrees ; Ordinaries and Alphabets of Arms ; 

 Collections of Arms for separate English Counties, and for Forei;jn States, have been 

 arranged and laid down. The division is complete in six volumes. 



Army and ISavy. — The slips have been arranged in various sections and laid down. 

 The division is complete in two volumes. 



Science. — The sections of Chronology, Astronomy, Meteorology, Chemistry, 

 and Occult Sciences, have been arranged and laid down. The division is complete 

 in seven volumes. 



Grammar and Philology. — The slips for the entire division have been arranged and 

 laid down, in one volume. 



General Literature. — The following sections have been arranged and laid down : 

 Logic, Ehetoric, Metaphysics, Ethics, Orations, Essays and Political Tracts, 

 Bibliography, Common Places and Excerpts. Complete in two volumes. 



Art. — The greater part of the Old Eoyal Collection has been examined, and 

 description slips of Miniatures and Illuminations prepared from the Manuscripts. 



Commerce and Trade. — The section of Companies and Societies has been arranged 

 and laid down; and the slips of other sections have been partly arranged. 



Additional slips have been inserted in many of the divisions already laid down. 



For the special Catalogue of Romances, various works in ninety-six volumes of different 

 collections have been described in detail. 



The Egerton MSS., 1,995, 1,996, 1,997, have been described in detaiL 



The following manuscripts have been described for the Catalogue of Additions : — 

 Nos. 23,808 to "23,880, 23,889 to 23,899, 23,901 to 23,935, 23,938, 23,940 to 23.973, 

 23,986 to 23,990, 23,993 to 23,995, 24,003 to 24,026, acquired in the year I860;— 24,057 

 to 24,077, 24,079, 24,096 to 24,098, 24,100, acquired in 1861 ;— 24,334 to 24,336, 

 24,340 to 24,342, 24.353 to 24,356, acquired in 1862 ;— 27,732 to 27,735, acquired in 

 1867 ;— 27,899, 27,900, 27,915, acquired in 18(58 ;— 27,997, 28,153 to 28,157, acquired in 

 1869 ;— 28,545 to 28,558, acquired in 1870;— 28,559 to 28,571, 28,598 to 28,697, 28,699, 

 28,701, 28,709 to 28,834, acquired in 1871 ;— and Egerton MSS. 1,970, 1,980, acquired 

 in 1865. 



Thirteen hundred and ninety-four Harleian Charters, numbered 80 E. 1 to 80 I. 98, 

 83 B. 8 to 83 F. 7, 111 A. 1 to 111 E. 62, 112 A. 1 to 112 L 62; and 1,292 Addi- 

 tional Charters, Nos. 18,025 to 18,194, acquired in 1869; 18,195 to 18,465, 18,557 to 

 19,135, acquired in 1870 ; and 19,136 to 19,407, acquired in 1871, have been described. 



Previous descriptions of 2,955 Harleian and 105 Egerton Charters have been revised. 



Fifty-three detached Seals have been described, numbered xliii., 81 to 133. 



The Index to the detailed Catalogue of the Sloane Collection has been completed in slips. 



Indexes 



