ACCOUNTS, &C., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM. 



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

 of Objects added, in the Year 1872. 



Department of Printed Books. 



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

 on the shelves of the Library accoi'ding 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 102,797, of Labels to 

 40,072, and of renewed Labels to 16,307. 



II. Cataloguing : — (a.) 76,170 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, 

 60,046 were written for the New General and Supplementary Catalogue, and 16,124 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 A to P, the number of title-slips transcribed fourfold amounts to 50,918, and of 

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

 235. 38,440 transcripts of title-slips, and 229 of index-slips, have been incorporated into 

 each of three copies of this portion of the CataTogue. The first copy of 38,553 transcripts, 

 forming jiortions of letter P, (of which 11,670 were new ones), the second copy of 

 32,103 transcripts (of which 11,809 were new ones'), the third copy of 30,873 transcripts 

 (of which 10,669 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 17,327. 14,963 transcripts of title-slips have 

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



((/.) Jfusic Catalogue. — 12,620 title-slips have been written, and 9,994 title-slips have 

 been transcribed fourfold for this Catalogue. 



(e.) Hebrew Catalogue. — 1309 title-slips have been written, and 292 transcribed fourfold 

 for this Catalogue. 



(/.) Oriental Catalogue (including all Avorks in Oriental languages other than Hebrew, 

 Chinese, and Japanese). — The number of title-slips written is 1,648, and 3235 have 

 been transcribed fourfold. 554 titles have been specially revised. The Sanscrit section 

 of this Catalogue has been transcribed and bound in seven folio volume>', and a copy 

 placed in the Reading Room for the use of the readers. 



(g.) Chinese and Japanese Catalogue. — 510 title-slips have been written for Chinese 

 books, and 37 for Japanese books. 2,242 titles have been revised for press, and the print- 

 ing of the Catalogue has proceeded as far as the heading Chang. 



(h.) 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, 44,300 slips have been mounted on cartridge paper, and 119,510 arranged pre- 

 paratory to incorporation, and 47,960 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 254 in each of the interleaved 

 copies, and 127 in the Hand-Catalogue. 



{k.) Grenville Catalogue. — The third part or fourth volume, completing the Catalogue 

 of the Library bequeathed by the Right Honourable Thomas Grenville, together with a 

 general index, has been printed, and a complete copy has been inlaid in six folio volumes, 

 press-marked, 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 10,029 ; 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 7,567. 3,435 

 pamphlets have also been bound, and 352 volumes repaired. 



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