10 ACCOUNTS, &C., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM. 



VIII. — PROGRESS made in the Arrangement and Cataloguing of Collec- 

 tions, AND Statements of Additions, in the Year 1882. 



Department of Printed Books. 



I. Arrangement. — The works added to the Collection during the year have, as far as 

 possible, been placed on the shelves of the Library according to the system of classifi- 

 cation 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 

 84,760; in addition to which 44,107 press-marks have been altered, in consequence of 

 changes and re-arrangements carried out in the Library. 27,399 labels have been affixed, 

 and 42,745 obliterated labels have been renewed. The duty of attaching thii-d press- 

 marks to the books in the New Library has been continued; 11,400 books have been 

 thus marked during the year, and the corresponding alterations have been carried oat 

 in the Reading Room Catalogues. 



XL Cataloguing: — (a.) 53,044 title-slips have been written (the term "title-slip" ap- 

 plying equally to a main-title and a cross-reference). Of these, 36,325 were written for 

 the New General and Supplementary Catalogues, and 16,719 for the separate Cata- 

 logues of Music and the several Oriental Collections. 



{p.) Printing. — 49,051 titles have been prepared for printing during the year, upon 

 the plan announced in the Statement of Progress for 1879, and 51,010 titles have been 

 printed off. The system of printing those volumes of the Catalogue which have become 

 filled with entries, and which would otherwise require to be broken up and re-laid, has 

 been continued during the year. 45 MS. volumes have been printed during 1882, 

 forming 13 volumes of print, and including the headings: Arouet de Voltaire, Gladstone, 

 Goldoni, Goldsmith, Stillingfleet, Stowe. 



(c.) Transcription and Incorporation. — It is stUl found necessary, for various reasons, to 

 transcribe a certain number of the titles. In the first, or amalgamated portion of the 

 Catalogue, from A to S, and T, the number of titles thus transcribed amounts to 125, and 

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

 to 454. 51,552 titles and 455 index-slips have been incorporated into each of three copies 

 of this portion of the Catalogue. This incorporation has rendered it necessary, in order 

 to maintain the alphabetical arrangement, to remove and re-insert in each coj^y 46,689 

 title-slips and 602 index-slips, and to add to each copy 170 new leaves to receive new 

 entries. 



In the second or supplementary portion of the Catalogue, Sud to Sz, and V to Z, 6,210 

 title-slips have been incorporated into each of three copies of this portion of the Cataloo-ue. 

 In order to maintain the alphabetical arrangement during the incorporation, 7,039 titles 

 were removed and re-inserted in each copy, and 32 new leaves were added to each copy 

 to receive them. 



The number of new entries made in the Hand-Catalogue of the Periodical Publications 

 was 346, and in that of Academies 185. 



((/.) Music Catalogue. — 10,848 title-slips have been written, and 4,858 title-slips have 

 been transcribed fourfold for this Catalogue. 15,416 transcripts of title-slips have been 

 incorporated into each of the two copies of this Catalogue ; and, in order to maintain 

 the alphabetical arrangement, 18,032 title- slips have been removed and re-inserted in 

 each copy. 



(e.) Hebrew Catalogue. — 127 title-slips have been written for this Catalogue. 



(/.) Oriental Catalogues. — The .number of titles written is 5,717, of which 160 

 were for Sanscrit, 2,044 for Bengali, 1,384 for Hindi, 838 for Marathi, and 1,291 

 for Gujarati. 



{g.) Chinese and Japanese Catalogues. — 27 title-slips have been written for this 

 Catalogue. 



(A.) Carbonic Hand- Catalogue. — For this Catalogue, in which the title-slips are 

 arranged in order of the press-marks, 45,027 have been mounted on cartridge paper, 

 80,825 have been arranged, and 69,000 have been partially arranged, preparatory to 

 incorporation, and 120,850 have been incorporated. 



{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 



