ACCOUNTS, &C., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM. 



British Museum Keading-Room and Libraries (Description), with a 

 Plan: 8vo. 



British Museum. WyclifFe Exhibition in the King's Library. Arranged by E. M. 

 Thompson, Keeper of the Department of MSS: 8vo. 



A Selection from the Miscellaneous Inscriptions of Assyria and 

 Babylonia. Prepared by Major General Sir H. C. Rawlinson, K.C.B., f.r.s., &c., 

 assisted by Theophiius Gr. Pinches. Vol. V. Plates (36-70). Folio. 



Catalogue op the Greek Coins in tpie British Museum. Central Greece 

 (Locris, Phocis, Bocotia and Eubcea). By Barclay Y. Head, m.r.a.s. 8vo. 



Prints and Drawings in the British Museum, reproduced by Photographic 

 process. German Prints (32 plates in portfolio). 



Report on the Zoological Collections made in the Indo-Pacific Ocean 

 during the Voyage of H.M.S. " Alert," 1881-82. With 54 Lithographic Plates. 8vo. 



Guide to the Mineral Gallery of the British Museum (Natural 

 History). With an Introduction to the sludy of Minerals. By Lazarus Fletcher, 

 M.A,, Keeper of the Department of Mineralogy : 8vo. 



British Museum,\ Edward A. Bund, 



30 MaylSS.'j. J Principal Librarian. 



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

 tions, and Additions made to them, in the Year 1884. 



Department of Printed Books. 



I. Arranfjement. — 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 

 63,006; in addition to which 48,664 press-marks have been altered, in consequence of 

 changes and re-arrangements carried out in the Library. 27,117 labels have been aiiixed, 

 and 84,503 obliterated labels have been renewed. The process of attaching third press- 

 marks to the books in the New Library has been continued; 15,712 books have been 

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

 in the Reading Room Catalogues. 



II. Cataloguing: — (a.) 44,041 title-slips have been written (the term "title-slip" ap- 

 plying equally to a main-title and a cross-reference). Of these, 35,630 were written for 

 the New General and Supplementary Catalogues, and 8,411 for the separate Cata- 

 logues of Music and the several Oriental Collections. 



(i.) Printing. — 44,510 titles for works added to the Library have been prepared for 

 printing during the year, upon the plan announced in the Statement of Progress for 

 1879, and 38,966 titles have been printed off. 



Prcigi-ess has also been made in the further undertaking of printing the whole Catalogue 

 in its alphabetical sequence from the beginning. Several volmnes Avhich had become 

 filled with entries, in the further portion of the Catalogue, have also been printed. 123 

 MS. volumes have been printed during 1884, forming 30 printed volumes. The 

 letter A has been printed and published, with the exception of the heading "Academies," 

 and the letter B, as far as the heading " Bible," was in the hands of the printer it the 

 close of the year. The articles " Aristotle," " Bacon," and " Bunyan," have been issued 

 separately. 



(c.) Licorporation. — New General Catalogue (A to U, part of AY), 52,314 title-slips, 

 and 633 index-slips have been incorporated into this portion of the Catalogue. This 

 incorporation has rendered it necessary, in order to maintain the alphabetical arrange- 

 ment, to remove and re-insert in each copy 48,814 title-slips and 1,185 index-slips, and 

 to add to each copy 212 new leaves to receive them. 



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

 was 216, and in that of Academies, 105. 



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