ACCOUNTS, &C., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM. 



(6.) A collection of Indo-Portuguese works printed at Goa. 



* (7.) A considerable purchase of Chinese classical and historical works, made at the 

 sale of the library of the late M. Pauthier. 



(8.) Among the accessions to Music may be mentioned a collection of early English 

 and Italian madrigals, motetts, &c., from the library of the late Thomas Oliphant, Esq. 



(9.) Vohunes of the " Hobart Town Gazette" for 1846, and from 1858 to 1868. 

 Presented by the Trustees of the Tasmanian Public Library, Hobart Town. 



(10.) Specimen numbers of 343 Newspapers and Periodicals published in the Nether- 

 lands, being a portion of the collection exhibited at the International Exhibition of 1872. 

 Presented by the Booksellers' Association of Amsterdam. 



IF. B. Rye. 



Department of Maps, Charts, Plans, and Topographical Drawings. 



I. Cataloguing and Arrangement: — {a.) The number of Titles (including both main 

 titles and cross-references) written for the Catalogue of Maps and Charts during the 

 year, amounts to 5,405 ; those transcribed fourfold for insertion, to 6,831. 



(J.) Press-marks have been applied to 1,239 maps and 3,988 titles. The number of 

 small hand-slips written for press-marks is 1,657, and 819 hand-slips of purchases have 

 been made. 



(c.) 696 Maps, in 808 sheets, and 101 Atlases have been entered for the binder, and 

 202 volumes and 810 Maps, in 5,637 pieces, have been returned from the binder, the 

 former bound, and the latter mounted on 3,302 cards; and 182 sheets of Admiralty 

 Charts have been inserted in their respective volumes ; 74 volumes have received special 

 letterings. 



(rf.) An incorporation has been made into 3 copies of the Catalogue of 6,982 Titles, 

 necessitating the removal of 10,402 titles, and the addition to each copy of 351 new leaves : 

 28,550 slips of fourth copy have been incorporated into the Hand Catalogue ; 2 copies of 

 2,345 titles in the volumes of Catalogue, containing England and France, have been taken 

 up, trimmed, and, with 112 new titles, have been laid down to form six new volumes. 



(e.) The number of Atlases returned to their shelves from the Reading Room was 

 787, the number of Maps 1,134, making a sum total of 1,921. 



(/.) The number of Stamps affixed to maps was 12,946. 



II. Additions : — (a.) The number of Maps which have been received by the Copyright 

 Act is 441 (in 1,346 sheets), and 23 Atlases and 17 parts of Atlases have also been received 

 by Copyright. Ninety-two Atlases and parts of Atlases, and 1,020 Maps, in 3,768 sheets, 

 have been obtained by purchase, and 3 volumes and 270 Maps, in 453 sheets, have been 

 presented. 



Among the most interesting acquisitions of the year are : — 



A photograph fac-slmlle, the exact size of the original, of the superb Mappemonde made 

 at Venice in 1457-59, at the instance of Prince Henry the Navigator, and at the expense 

 of his uncle. King Affonso V., by Fra Mauro of the Camaldalese Convent of San 

 Michele di iMurano, on account of which a medal was struck in his honour by the 

 Republic, describing him as Cosmographus incomparabllls. 



A photograph fac-simile, in 15 sheets, of the famous Mappemonde in the National 

 Library, Parma, made in 1367 by the Venetian brothers PIzzIgani. This fac-simile was 

 made expressly for the Trustees. Both these Mappemondes are of high importance to 

 the history of media3val geographical discovery. 



An important collection of Maps, Plans, and Sections of Canals in England and Wales, 

 in 620 sheets. 



And a collection of 23 Manuscript Maps and Plans of various places in India, made in 

 the last half of the eighteenth century. 



R. H. Major. 



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