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



Sub-Department of Maps, Charts, and Plans. 



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 1,570. 



(b.) Press-marks have been given to 825 maps and 24 Atlases and 1,541 titles. The 

 number of slips written for the hand-catalogue is 240. 



11. — A dditions. 



706 Maps, in 3,402 sheets, 12 Atlases and one part of an Atlas, have been received 

 imder the Copyright Act. 9 Atlases and 66 Maps, in 276 sheets, and one relief Map, in 

 two sections, have been obtained by purchase ; three Volumes, and 315 Maps and Charts, 

 in 575 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 30 visitors to the Map Room for the purpose of 

 special geographical research. 



89 Volumes of the Catalogue of Maps (E 7, Englefield — M 4, Manche) have been 

 prepared and sent to the printer. 96 Sheets of " Proof" (Denmark, p. 1025 — Mac- 

 kenzie, p. 2560), for the new printed Catalogue of Maps, have been collated, and 86 sheets 

 of "Revises " (Danzig, p. 993— Lille, p. 2368) 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 " Englefield" to " Manheira." 

 1,940 Titles of Accessions have been prepared and sent to the printer. 



463 Maps, in 2,619 sheets and 19 Atlases, have been entered for the binder, and 

 48 Volumes and 390 Maps have been returned from the binder, the former bound and 

 the latter mounted, 44 on cards, and 346 on jaconet and union. 



92 Sheets of the Geological Survey have been mounted on jaconet. 



An incorporation has been made into three copies of the Catalogue of 338 transcripts, 

 in all 1,014 transcripts. 3,200 New titles have been incorporated into the "Blue" copy 

 of the Catalogue. 



The number of Atlases returned to their shelves from the Reading Room was 838, the 

 number of Maps, 1,883, making a total of 2,721. 



The number of stamps impressed on Maps obtained by purchase was 639 ; on those 

 received by presentation, 519, making a total of 1,158. 



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



Choix de Documents geographiques conserves a la Bibliotheque Nationale [containing 

 heliographic reproductions of] Mappemonde de Saint Sever (x. siecle), Carte Pisane 

 (xiv. siecle), Atlas Catalan de Charles V., Roi de France. 



Relief-Karte von Central-Europa, verfertigt von L. Dickert, Mstb. 1 : 100,000. [In 

 two sections, each 56^ x 29| in.] 



Nova Rhoetije atqz totius Helvetiaa descriptio, per ^gidium Tschudium Glaronensem, 

 1538. [Photolithographic reproduction, original size, in 10 sheets, from an unique 

 example preserved in the University Library, Basle.] 



Three maps, in Greek, showing respectively the Hellenic nationality durino- the 5th 

 century, during the M acedonian Empire, and during the Byzantine Empire ; executed 

 by H. Kiepert for the Society for the Diffusion of Greek Literature, Athens. 



Robert K. Douglas. 



Department of Manuscripts. 



_ 1. Class Catalogue.— The incorporation of the printed description of MSS. acquired 

 m the years 1854 to 1881 into the several volumes of the Catalogue is nearly com- 



The Catalogue of the State Papers of the year 1534 has been rearranged. 



2. Catalogue 



