ACCOUNTS, &C., OF THK BRITISH MUSEUM. 



Sub-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 amounted to 4,741, of those transcribed 

 fourfold for insertion, to 1,220. 



(b.) Press-marks have been given to 1,288 maps and 2,133 titles. The number of 

 register-slips written was 1,557, and of slips written for purchases 164. Two Indexes 

 have been made, one for a collection of Maps, and the other for the Ordnance Surveys of 

 Towns ; and six Indexes have been Avritten for Catalogue headings. 



(f.) 4,492 Admiralty Charts have been re-arranged according to their published num- 

 bers and under their respective sections. 



(d.) 50 volumes of the Map Catalogue (A. and B.) have been prepared for the press, 

 and the contents of three volumes and a part of a fourth, into which have been incorporated 

 the titles from the Catalogues of Maps and Maritime Charts in the King's Library, have 

 been sent to the printer " for press." 



(e.) 491 Maps in 6,246 sheets, and 36 Atlases, have been entered for the binder, 

 and 59 volumes and 444 maps have been returned from the binder, the former bound 

 and the latter mounted, 104 on cards, and 340 on jaconet and union. Four volumes 

 have received separate letterings. 



( f.) An incorporation has been made into three copies of the Catalogue of 762 

 transcripts, in all 2,286 transcripts, necessitating the removal in each of the three copies 

 of 907 transcripts, and the addition to each of nine new leaves. 10,453 slips of the fourth 

 copy of the Catalogue have been arranged, and 6,279 slips mounted. 



(ff.) The number of Atlases returned to their shelves from the Heading Room was 885, 

 the number of Maps 1,247, making a total of 2,132, 



(/*,) The number of stamps impressed on Maps received by purchase was 1,852 ; on 

 those received by presentation 737, making a total of 2,589. 



II. — A dditlons. 



(a.) 1,247 Maps, in 7,413 sheets, 13 Atlases and seven parts of Atlases, have been 

 received under the Copyright Act. 59 Atlases and parts of Atlases, and 203 Maps, in 

 1,613 sheets, two Globes (terrestrial and celestial), and one relief Map, have been 

 obtained by purchase ; 22 Atlases and Volumes, and 300 Maps and Charts, in 630 sheets, 

 have been presented. 



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

 have been in the course of tlie year 111 visitors to the Map Room for the purpose of 

 special geographical research. 



Amono- the more interesting acquisitions of the year may be mentioned : A pair of 

 Grlobes (terrestrial and celestial) by William Blaeu, of Amsterdam, 1606, 5j inches in 

 diameter, mounted on stands, with copper fittings; a reprint of a Turkish Mappe-monde, 

 executed by a Tunisian named Hadji Ahmed, 1559, and preserved in the Bibliotheca di 

 San Marco, Venice ; a Model, cast in metal, of Mount Vesuvius, by G. Pistoja, Florence, 

 1878, 1 ft. 94 in. by 2 ft. \\ in. ; and 10 Photographic Reproductions of Portolani of the 

 13th, 14th and 15th centuries, executed by F. Ongania for the Geographical Congress 

 held in Venice, September 1881, and including the Charts of Francesco Pizzigani, 1373, 

 preserved in the Bibliotheca Ambrosiana, Milan ; the Portolano of Giacomo Giraldi, of 

 Venice, 1426, preserved in the R. Bibliotheca Marciana, Venice ; a Terrestrial Plani- 

 sphere, in eliptical form, and in Latin, 1447, preserved in the R. Bibliotheca Nazionale, 

 Florence; an anonymous Planisphere of the World as known in the 15th century, in 

 Catalonian, preserved in the R. Bibliotheca Nazionale, Florence ; and the Charts of 

 Battista Agnese, 1554, preserved in the R. Bibliotheca Marciana, Venice. 



During the past year all arrears of cataloguing work in the Sub-department have been 

 cleared oiF, leaving only some Admiralty Charts and Ordnance Surveys to be dealt with 

 beyond the ordinary current acquisitions. 



Robert K. Douglas. 



