ACCOUNTS, &C., OK THE BRITISH MUSEUM. 



Sub-Department of Maps, Charts, Plans, and Topographical Drawings. 



I. — Cataloguing and Arrangement. 



4,089 titles (including both main-titles and cross-references) were written for the 

 Catalogue of Maps and Charts during the year. 



Press-marks were given to 459 Maps and Atlases, and to 3,428 titles ; and 2,599 slips 

 were written for the Hand Catalogue. 



2,919 Titles of Accessions (Parts x. and xi.) were sent to the printer, 28 sheets of 

 proof of Accessions have been collated, and 28 sheets of revise have been sent for 

 press, and printed off. 



691 Maps in 3,087 sheets, and 107 Atlases have been sent to be mounted, bound, 

 and lettered; and 126 volumes and 784 Maps have been returned; of the former 94 were 

 bound, 29 lettered, ind three repaired ; of the latter 607 were mounted on jaconet and 

 union, and 177 on cards. 



121 sheets of the English Admiralty Charts, 53 siieets of the Japanese Admiralty 

 Charts, and 54 sheets of the English 1-inch Ordnance Survey have been mounted on 

 union, and nine volumes of the Ordnance Survey have been bound and one repaii'ed. 

 33 sheets of the Austrian Survey have also been mounted on union. 



4,244 printed Accession titles (Parts IX., X., and xi.) have been incorporated into three 

 copies of the Printed Catalogue of Maps, 



The number of Atlases returned to their shelves from the Reading Room Avas 1,056, 

 the number of Maps 1,552, making a total of 2,608. 



The number of stamps impressed on Maps obtained by purchase was 715, on those 

 received by presentation 377 ; making a total of 1,092. 



Besides the students who have consulted Maps and Atlases in the Reading Room 

 during the year, 101 visitors have been admitted to the Map Room for the purpose of 

 geographical research. 



II. — Additions. 



212 Maps in 3,601 sheets, and 11 Atlases, have been received under the Copyright 

 Act ; 24 Atlases, one Globe, and 62 Maps in 362 sheets, have been obtained by purchase ; 

 one volume, and 118 Maps and Charts in 224 sheets, have been presented. 



Among the more interesting acquisitions may be mentioned: — 



" A Map of Virginia. Discovered and discribed (^sic) by Captayn John Smith. Graven 

 by W. Hole '' [London, 1609], Being the first impression of the plate upon large paper, 

 before the publication of Smith's work, entitled "A Map of Virginia," 1612, 4to. With 

 inscription on the verso in the handwriting of J. Smyth of Nibley. 



Sixteen old Maps of Properties in Oxfordshire (with one in Berkshire) in the possession 

 of some of the Colleges in the University of Oxford [1605-1768] ; illustrating the 

 Open Field System. Reproduced by the Collotype process. Edited by J. L .G- Mowat. 

 Oxford, 1888, foi. 



CI. Ptolemy's '' Geographiae Universae tum veteris tum novse absolutissimum opus 

 duobus voluminibus distinctum. Auctore Jo. Ant. Magino Patavino. Apud Haeredes 

 Simonis Galignani de Karera. Venetiis, 1596, 4to." This is the earliest of the editions of 

 Ptolemy's Geography by Magini. The acquisition of the above makes the Museum 

 collection of Ptolemies complete with the exception of four editions, one of which has 

 been acquired within the last few days. 



. •■' II Theatro del Mondo di Abraamo Ortelio . . . Ridotto dalla forma grande in questa 

 piccola." [Edited by P. M. Marchetti.] Brescia, 1598, 4to. The earliest Italian trans- 

 lation published in Italy of the " Epitome Theatri Orbis Terrarum " of A. Ortelius. The 

 only other copy at present known is preserved in the Public Library at Udine. 



Robert K. Douglas. 



