ACCOUNTS, Ac, OF' THE BRITISH MUSEUM. H 



Subject Index of the Modern Works added to the Library of the 

 British Museum, in the years 1880-85. Compiled by G. K. Fortescue, Superinten- 

 dent of the Reading Room in the British Museum, 1886. Royal Octavo. 



Introduction to a Catalogue of the Early Italian Prints in the British 

 Museum. By Richard Fisher, 1886. Royal Octavo. 



Descriptive and Historical Catalogue of a Collec;tion of Japanese and 

 Chinese Paintings in the British Museum. E^y William Anderson, f.r.c.s., 

 1886. Octavo. 



Catalogue of Greek Coins of Crete and the JEgean Islands. By Warwick 

 Wroth, .Assistant in the Department of Coins. Edited by R. Stuart Poole, Keeper of 

 Department of Coins, 1886. Octavo. 



Ancient Greek Inscriptions. Part III. Section I. Priene and lasos. By 

 the Rev. E. L. Hicks. Edited by C. T. Newton, C.B., 1886. Folio. 



New Edition of the Guide to the Exhibition Galleries. 



Guide to the Nimroud Central Saloon, department of Egyptian and Assyrian 

 Antiquities. 



Guide to the Mausoleum Room, in the department of Greek and Roman Antiqui- 

 ties. 



Guide to the Autograph Letters, &c., exhibited in the department of MSS. 

 and in the King's Library. 



Guide to the Elgin Room ; with twelve illustrations. 



British Museum,"! Edward A. Bond, 



31 May 1887. J Principal Librarian. 



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

 tions, AND Additions made to them, in the Year 1886. 



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-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 

 77,468; in addition to which 39,466 press-marks have been altered, in consequence of 

 changes and re-arrangements carried out in the Library. 26,006 labels have been affixed, 

 and 101,019 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; 35,592 books have been thus marked during the year, 

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



II. Cataloguing : — (a.) 62,209 title-slips have been written (the term "title-slip" ap- 

 plying equally to a main-title and a cross-reference). Of these, 35,813 were written for 

 the New General and Supplementary Catalogues, and 26,396 for the separate Cata- 

 logues of Music and the several Oriental Collections. 



{b.) Printing. — 44,139 titles have been prepared for printing during the year, upon 

 the plan announced in the Statement of Progress for 1879, and 45,558 titles have been 

 printed off. 



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

 from the beginning. With the exception of the headings : " Bible," " Catalogues," and 

 a few minor articles, the Catalogue is now printed or at press up to " Englaendisches," 

 and the extensive article " Periodical Publications " has likewise been entirely printed, 

 with the exception of the index. 143 MS. volumes have been printed during 1886, 

 forming 37 printed volumes. 



(c.) Incorporation. — New General Catalogue. 34,034 title-slips, and 339 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 30,105 title-slips and 767 index-slips, and to add 

 to each copy 220 new leaves to receive them. 



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