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



Catalogue of Pkinted Maps, Plans and Charts in the British Museum. 

 Edited by Kobert K. Douglas, Assistant Keeper in the Department of Printed I 'ooks 

 1885. Folio. 



Catalogue of Ancient Manuscripts. Part II., Latin ; with Photographic 

 Plates. Edited by E. Maunde Thompson, f.s.a.. Keeper of the Department of Manu- 

 scripts. Folio. 



Medallic Illustrations of the History of Great Britain and Ireland 

 TO THE Death of George II. Compiled by the late Edward Hawkins, f.r.s., f.s.a., 

 and edited by Augustus W. Franks, f.r.s., f.s.a., and Herbert A. Grueber ; 

 2 vols. Octavo. 



Catalogue of Indian Coins (the Sultans of Delhi). By Stanley Lane 

 Poole. Edited by Reginald Stuart Poole, ll.d.. Keeper of the Department of Coins. 



Catalogue of Indian Coins (the Muhammadan States of India). By 

 Stanley Lane Poole. Edited by Reginald Stuart Poole, ll.d.. Keeper of the Depart- 

 ment of Coins. 



Catalogue of Indian Coins (Greek and Scythic Kings of Bactria and 

 India). By Percy Gardner, Lett. D. Edited by Reginald Stuart Poole, ll.d., Keeper 

 of the Department of Coins. 



Prints and Drawings in the British Museum, reproduced by Photogravure 

 (20 plates in portfolio). Early Italian Prints. New Series, Part I. 



British Museum,"! Edward A. Bund, 



31 May 1886. J Principal Librarian. 



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

 tions, AND Additions made to them, in the Year 1 885. 



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-mai'ks, 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 

 61,102; in addition to which 52,127 press-marks have been altered, in consequence of 

 changes and re-arrangements carried out in the Library. 25,807 labels have been affixed, 

 and 86,462 obliterated labels have been renewed. The process of attaching third press- 

 marks to the books in the New Library, with the view of accelerating their delivery 

 to readers, has been continued; 16,935 books have been thus marked during the year, 

 and the corresponding alterations have been carried out in the Reading Room Catalogues. 



II. Cataloguing: — (a.) 44,820 title-slips have been written (the term "title-slip" ap- 

 plying equally to a main-title and a cross-reference). Of these, 37,167 were written for 

 the New General and Supplementary Catalogues, and 7,653 for the separate Cata- 

 logues of Music and the several Oriental Collections. 



{b.) Printing. — 35,578 titles have been prepared for printing during the year, upon 

 the plan announced in the Statement of Progress for 1879, and 49,392 titles have been 

 printed off. 



Progress has also been made in printing the whole Catalogue in alphabetical sequence 



from the beginning, and the printing has advanced as far as the heading " Clenzenius." 



Several volumes which had become filled with entries, in the further portion of the 



Catalogue, have also been printed. 132 MS. volumes have been printed during 1885, 



orming 35 printed volumes. 



(c.) Incorporation. — New General Catalogue. 43,688 title-slips, and 195 index-slips 

 have been incorporated into each of the three copies of this Catalogue. This incor- 

 poration has made it necessary, in order to maintain the alphabetical arrangement, 

 to remove and re-insert in each copy 38,138 title-slips and 178 index-slips, and to add 

 to each copy 144 new leaves to receive them. 



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

 was 191, and in that of Academies, 95. 



{d.) Music 



