ACCOUNTS, &C., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM. 



Saints, especially in New England, 1680. — Twenty rare Scotch proclamations, and other 

 documents of the seventeenth century. 



Some scarce Avorks of Percy Bysshe Shelley, including the " Refutation of Deism," 

 of which only two other copies are known to have occurred. The first edition of 

 " Epipsychidion," of which Shelley only printed 100 copies for private circulation. " A 

 Vindication of Natural Diet:" being a reprint of a portion of the preface to Queen Mab, 

 with additional matter unique in this form. 



Considerable additions have been made to the minor English poetry and dramatic 

 literature of the 18th and 19th centuries. Early editions of various woi-ks by Byron, 

 Moore, Shelley, and Leigh Hunt, have been acquired, as well as many which were want- 

 ing to comijlete the series of editions in the case of older writers, such as Burton, Bunyan, 

 Defoe, and Dryden. Sets of many of the older English Periodicals and Magazines have 

 been bought, and others made perfect. A large number of privately and locally printed 

 books have been obtained. 



A further selection of about 500 works from the linguistic library of M. Burgaud des 

 Marets, comprising works in Basque, In the dialects of Italy, Spain, and Portugal, and 

 in Wallachlan. This purchase has made the Museum Library exceedingly rich in Basque 

 books. 



A collection of Romaic works from the library of the late Charles Hopf. 



A considerable collection of journals, pamphlets, books, and caricatures Illustrative of 

 the recent revolution in Spain, 1870-74. 



A collection of Law Reports and other law books of Upper and Lower Canada and 

 Nova Scotia, In which the library has hitherto been deficient. 



Several files of important foreign newspapers, including the official Gazette of the 

 Portuguese Grovernment, the Diario do Governo ; the Romanu, a Wallachlan newspaper, 

 published In Bucharest ; the Port Philip Gazette for 1838-41, being the first newspaper 

 published In Melbourne ; arid the Daily Dispatch, published at Richmond during the 

 American Civil War. 



The collection of Music has been augmented by the purchase of several hundred volumes, 

 com^DrisIng the works of modern German, French, and Italian composers, many in full 

 score. The works of Glinka, Titov, Varlamov, have been added to the Russian music. 

 A great number of important treatises on the theory of the art have been acquired, 

 and several valuable additions made to the class of early printed music. 



W. B. Rye. 



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



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

 titles and ci"Oss-references ) written for the Catalogue of Maps and Charts during the 

 year, amounts to 6,527 ; those transcribed fourfold for insertion, to 6,823. 



{b.) Press-marks have been applied to 1,701 maps and 6,037 titles. The number of 

 small hand-slips written for press-marks is 1,664, and 1,009 hand-slips of purchases have 

 been made. 



•(c.) 1,094 Maps, in 1,803 sheets, and 305 Atlases have been entered for the binder, and 

 175 volumes and 331 Maps, have been returned from the binder, the former bound, and 

 the latter mounted, 298 on 795 cards, and 33 on cloth ; 78 volumes have received separate 

 letterings. 



(c?.) An Incorporation has been made Into three copies of the Catalogue of 6,207 Titles, 

 necessitating the removal of 18,560 titles, and the addition to each copy of 1,872 new- 

 leaves ; 21,110 titles have been taken up from 19 volumes of the Catalogue and trimmed 

 for relaying; 17,241 titles have been relaid, and, with 1,191 new titles, together 18,432 

 titles, have been laid down to form 29 new volumes. 



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

 510, the number of Maps 892, making a sum total of 1,402. 



(/.) The number of Stamps affixed to Maps was 10,169. 



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

 Act is 524 (in 2,585 sheets), and 8 Atlases and 1 part of an Atlas have also been received 

 by Copyright: 214 Atlases and parts of Atlases, and 1,723 Maps, In 2,665 sheets, have 

 been obtained by purchase, and 4 volumes and 354 Maps, in 506 sheets, have been 

 presented. 



Besides the students who have consulted Maps and Atlases in the Reading Room, there 

 have been, in the course of the year, 122 visitors to the Department on special geographical 

 inquiries. 



Among the most interesting acquisitions of the year are : — 



An anonymous Map of Germany and the surrounding countries, engraved on copper, 



but with the lettering printed from type, published at Eichstatt in Bavaria, in 1491. In 



a legend at the top, describing the contents, occur the words : " Gratia sit Cuse Nicolao," 



showing it to be the surviving representative of an earlier Map, now unknown, made by 



14S. A 4 Cardinal 



