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



(d.) Music Catalogue. — 1,667 title-slips have been written for this Catalogue, and 

 18,304 titles of accessions have been printed. 18,316 title-slips have been incorporated 

 into each of the two copies of the Music Catalogue; and 2,218 into each of the two 

 copies of the Catalogue of authors of words set to music, 



(e.) Hebrew Catalogue. — 637 title-slips have been written for this Catalogue. 



{f.) Oriental Catalogues. — The number of titles written is 5,571, of which 696 

 were for Sanscrit, and Pali books; 2,006 for Arabic, Persian and Turkish; and the 

 remainder for Hindustani, Bengali, Hindi, and the other languages of India. 



{g.) Chinese and Japanese Catalogues. — 123 Chinese, and 413 Japanese title-slips have 

 been written for these Catalogues. 



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

 arranged in order of the press-marks, 1,500 have been arranged, and 1,200 partially 

 arranged, preparatory to incorporation, and 10,000 have been incorpoi'ated. 



(«.) hist 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 to 390 in each of these copies, and the necessary entries have been made in 

 the Hand-Catalogue. 



The arrangement of books much used by readers in the lower gallery of the Reading 

 Room has been completed, and a list of the books has been compiled to facilitate reference 

 to them, Avhich is now being printed. 



Some additions have been made to the Special Collections of Bibliographies in the 

 ReadlDg-Room. 



(j. ) Catalogue of English J3ooks printed up to 1640. — The printing of this Catalogue 

 has been completed, and it has been issued to the public. 



III. Binding. — The number of volumes and pamphlets sent to be bound in the course 

 of the year amounts to 21,621; including 466 volumes of newspapers; and, in con- 

 sequence of the frequent adoption of the 2>lan of binding two or more volumes in one, 

 the number of bound volumes retui-ned is 8,081. In addition to this, 1,339 pamphlets 

 have been separately bound, and 780 volumes have been repaired. 



Two thousand eight hundred and ninety Parcels of Newspapers have been arranged, 

 packed, labelled for reference, and stored away in packages in order to avoid the expense 

 of binding them. 



IV. Reading Room Service. — The number of volumes returned to the Greneral 

 Library from use in the Reading Room is 569,492; to the Royal Library, 13,931; 

 to the Grenville Library, 643 ; and to the presses in which books are kept from day 

 to day for the use of readers, 489,115, making a total amount of 1,100,450 volumes sup- 

 plied to readers. 



The number of readers during the year has been 154,729, giving an average of about 509 

 daily, and, from the numbers given above, each reader appears to have consulted about 

 7 volumes per diem, not reckoning those on the shelves of the Reading Room. 



V. Additions. — (a.) 31,747 volumes and pamphlets have been added to the Library in the 

 course of the year (including books of Music and volumes of N ewspa,pers), of which 3,376 

 Avere presented, 10,127 received in jjursuance of the laws of English Cojjyrlght, 1,486 

 received under the International Copyright Treaties, and 15,833 acquired by purchase. 



(b.) 30,188 parts of volumes (or separate numbers of periodical publications, and 

 works in progress) have also been added, of which 1,310 were ^^resented, 22,256 received 

 in pursuance of the laws of English Copyright, 787 received under the International 

 Copyright Treaties, and 5,835 acquired by purchase. 



(c.) The number of sets of Newsjiapers published In the United Kingdom and received 

 under the provisions of the Copyright Act during the past year has been as follows, viz. : 

 407 published in London and its suburbs, 1,307 in other parts of England and Wales, 

 186 in Scotland, and 155 in Ireland. 132 volumes, belonging to 69 dilFerent sets, have 

 been purchased ; and 1,774 numbers have been presented. 



{d.) 6,783 pieces of Music have been acquired, each piece complete in itself, of which 

 3,166 were received by English, and 2,494 by International Co25yright, and 1,123 by 

 purchase. 



(e.) The number of distinct works comprised in the 31,747 volumes and pamphlets, and 

 30,108 parts of volumes already mentioned, amounts, as nearly as can be ascertained, to 

 33,679. Of these, 3,041 have loeen presented, 10,461 acquired by English, and 1,454 by 

 International Copyright, and 18,723 by purchase. 



\f') 12,207 articles have been received in the Department, not included in the foregoing 

 enumeration of volumes and parts of volumes, comprising Playbills, single pieces of 



Music, 



