ACCOUNTS, &C., OF THE iBRITISH MUSKUM. 



VI. — PROGRESS made In the Cataloguing and Arrangement, and Account 

 of 0J3JECTS ADDED, in the Year 1873. 



Department of Printed Books. 



L Arrangevient. — 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 87,962, of Labels to 

 32,596, and of renewed Labels to 19,246. 



IL Cataloguing : — (a.) 67,305 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, 

 52,156 were written for the New General and Supplementary Catalogues, and 15,149 for 

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



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

 logue from A to R, the number of title-slips transcribed fourfold amounts to 58,637, and of 

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

 516. 40,780 transcripts of title-slips, and 212 of index-slips, have been incorporated into 

 each of three copies of this portion of the Catalogue. The first copy of 42,039 transcripts, 

 forming portions of letters P, Q, and R (of which 14,303 were new ones), the second copy 

 of 46,375 transcripts (of which 14,263 were new ones), the third copy of 45,865 transcripts 

 (of which 14,053 were new ones), have been laid down in the volumes. 



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

 of title-slips transcribed fourfold amounts to 8,786, and of index-slips 23. 5,329 transcripts 

 of title-slips, and 24 of index-slips, have been incorporated into each of three copies of 

 this portion of the Catalogue. 



(rf.) Music Catalogue. — 13,950 title-slips have been written, and 19,683 title-slips have 

 been transcribed fourfold for this Catalogue. 



(e.) Hebrew Catalogue. — 61 title-slips have been 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 1,136. 127 have been 

 transcribed fourfold, and 188 title-slips have been Incorporated Into each of two copies. 

 272 titles have been specially revised. 



{g.) Chinese and Japanese Catalogue. — 60 title-slips have been written for Chinese 

 books, and 3 for Japanese books. The printing of the Catalogue has proceeded as far as 

 the heading Fan. 



{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, 52,680 slips have been mounted on cartridge paper, and 113,436 arranged pre- 

 paratory to incorporation. 



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

 additions in the interleaved copies of this List, 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 267 in each of the Interleaved cojiles, and the necessary enti"ies have been 

 made in the Hand-Catalogue. 



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

 amounts to 11,428 ; 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 8,745. 539 

 pamphlets have also been bound, and 452 volumes repaired. 



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

 Library, from use in the Reading Room, Is 285,183 ; to the Royal Library, 9,805 ; to 

 the Grenville Library, 748 ; and to the presses in which books are kept from day 

 to day for the use of readers, 240,596. Adding the estimated number of volumes 

 returned to the shelves of the Reading Room, about 846,327, the whole amounts to 

 1,382,659, or about 4,735 for each of the 292 days during which the room was open to 

 the public. 



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