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



Sub-Department of Maps, Charts, Plans, and Topographical Drawings, 



I. — Cataloguing and Arrangement. 



(a.) The jnumber of Titles (including both main-titles and ci'oss-references) written for 

 the Catalogue of Maps and Charts during the year amounts to 5,413. 



(b.) Press-marks have been given to 213 maps and 583 titles. The number of small 

 hand-slips written for press-marks is 362, and for purchases, 139. 



(c.) 74 volumes of the Catalogue of Maps (A, IX, America, U.S. — England) have been 

 prepared and sent to the printer; 179 sheets of " Proof " (America, U.S., p. 97 — Den- 

 mark, p. 1024), for the new printed Catalogue of Maps, have been collated, and 159 

 sheets of " Revises " (Africa, p. 25 — Danzig, p. 992) have been sent " for press." The 

 incorporation into the Map Catalogue of titles from the Catalogue of Maps, Prints, and 

 Charts in the Royal Library, has been continued from " Anthony " to " England.'' 



(d.) 1,382 Maps in 9,375 sheets, and 64 Atlases, have been entered for the binder, 

 and 171 volumes and 831 maps have been returned from the binder, the former bound 

 and the latter mounted, 63 on cards, and 768 on jaconet and union. 23 volumes have 

 received sejiarate letterings. 



(e.) An incorporation has been made into three copies of the Catalogue of 217 

 ti'anscfipts, in all 651 transcripts, necessitating the removal in each of the three copies 

 of 428 transcripts, and the addition to each of 20 new leaves. 1,346 new titles have been 

 incorporated into the " blue " copy of the Catalogue. 



(f.) The number of Atlases returned to their shelves from the Reading E.oom was 

 1,029, the number of Maps 1,483, making a total of 2,512. 



(ff.) The number of stamps impressed on Maps obtained by purchase was 1,133, and 

 on those received by presentation 786, making a total of 1,919. 



II. — A dditions, 



475 Maps, in 2,251 sheets, 10 Atlases and five parts of Atlases, have been received 

 under the Copyright Act. 18 Atlases and eight parts of Atlases, and 158 Maps, in 704 

 sheets, and one relief Map, have been obtained by purchase ; six Volumes, and 279 Maps 

 and Charts, in 518 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 54 visitors to the Map Room for the purpose of 

 special geographical research. 



Among the more interesting acquisitions of the year may be mentioned : 



Carta In rillevo degl' Alpi occldentali e dell' Appenino Ligure alia scala di 1 : 250,000 

 per le distanze e 1 : 125,000 per le altezze eseguita dal Cav. C. Cherubini, Torino, 1882. 



Mapoteca Colombiana. Coleccion de los Titulos de todos los Mapas, Pianos, Vistas, &c., 

 relativos 6, la America Espanola, Brasil e Isias adyacentes, por E. Uricoechea, Londres, 

 1860. Svo. The author's own copy, interleaved and enlarged with MS. additions in his 

 own handwriting. 



A Map of Lower Egypt, by Mahmud Bey. Scale 1 : 200,000. Cairo, 1872. (In 

 Arabic). 



A Map of Lower Egypt. Scale 1 : 200,000, 4 sh. Issued by the Intelligence Depart- 

 ment, War Office, London, 1882. 



A Map of the Apsheron Peninsula (on the Western shores of the Caspian Sea). By 

 S. Goolishambarow, Tiflls, 1882. (In English and Russian). 



La grande carte de Flandre dressee en 1540, par Gerard Mercator. Reproduction 

 phototypique de Texeraplalre conserve au Musee Plantln-Moretus, executes par J. Maes 

 et precedes d'une notice explicative par le Docteur J. van Raemdonck. Anvers, 1882. 



A Plan of Rome, Ancient and Modern, by J. H. Parker, C.B., printed for private cir- 

 culation only London, 1882. Presented by the author. 



Robert K. Douglas. 



