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



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

 tions, AND Additions made to them, in the Year 1888. (Bloomsbury.) 



Department of Printed Books. 



I. Arrangemeiit. — The works added to the Collection during the past 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 

 75.286; in addition to which 22,125 press-marks have been altered, in consequence of 

 changes and re-arrangements carried out in the Library. 36,859 labels have been affixed, 

 and 88,840 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; 28,096 books have thus been marked during the year, 

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

 Catalogues. 1,829 volumes of county newspapers in the General Library have been 

 labelled and numbered, and 5,783 title-slips written. 



II. Cataloguing. — (a.) 56,707 title-slips have been written (the term "title-slip" 

 applying equally to a main-title and a cross-reference). Of these, 41,044 were written for 

 the General Catalogue, and 15,663 fur the separate Catalogues of Music and the several 

 Oriental Collections. 



{b.) Printing, — 64,577 titles and 402 index-slips have been prepared for printing 

 during the year, upon the plan announced in the Statement of Progress for 1879, 

 and 49,101 titles and 402 index-slips have been printed oif. 



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

 from the beginning. With the exception of the headings, " Bible," " England," 

 " Great Britain," and a few other articles, the Catalogue was, at the end of 

 1888, either printed or at press up to the heading " Heydecker." 122 MS. volumes have 

 been printed during the past year, forming 21 printed volumes. The diminution in the 

 number of volumes printed in comparison with the preceding year, when 28 were reported, 

 is owing to the volumes being now made larger. The amount of printing actually per- 

 formed has been considerably greater, 473 sheets having been printed in 1888, against 394 

 in 1887. A revised edition of the list of books of reference in the Reading Room has 

 been undertaken, and entirely printed in the course of the year, with the exception of 

 the index of subjects. 



(c.) Incorporation. — General Catalogue. — 32,813 title-slips and 402 index-slips have 

 been incorporated into each of three copies of this Catalogue. This incorporation has 

 rendered it necessary, in order to maintain the alpliabetical arrangement, to remove and 

 re-insert 31,578 title-slips in each copy, and to add to each copy 138 new leaves to 

 receive them. The number of new entries made in the Hand-Catalogue of Periodical 

 Publications is 414, in that of Academies 185, and in the Hand-Catalogue of Newspapers 

 5,469. 



(rf.) Music Catalogue. — 11,586 title-slips have been written for this Catalogue, and 2,345 

 title-slips have been incorporated into each of two copies of it. This incorporation has 

 rendered it necessary to remove and re-insert 2,827 title-slips in each copy, and to add 

 to each copy six new leaves. 



(f.) Hebrew Catalogue. — 372 title-slips have been written for this Catalogue. 



(/.) Oriental Catalogues. — The number of title-slips written is 3,126, of which 

 536 were for Sanskrit, Pali, and Sinhalese books ; 2,229 for Arabic and Persian ; 

 196 for Malay ; 123 for Armenian, Syriac, Maltese, Turkish, &c. ; and 42 for Tamil and 

 Malayalara.^ 19 sheets of the Catalogue of Hindustani books have been printed, completing 

 the work with the exception of the index. The Catalogue of Marathi books has been 

 prepared for press. 



{g.) Chinese and Japanese Catalogues. — 579 Chinese and Japanese title-slips have 

 been written for these Catalogues. 



(h.) Hand- Catalogue. — For this Catalogue, in which the title-slips mounted on cards 

 are arranged in order of tlie press-marks, 94,650 have been arranged, and 161,666 partially 

 arranged, preparatory to incorporation, and 150,950 have been incorporated. 



(i.) Catalogues 



