ACCOUNTS, kC, OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM. H 



sheets, consisting of indexes, for the Catalogue of Hindustani books. The Catalogue 

 of Giijurati books has been prepared for press. 



(g.) Japanese Catalogue. — 5-1-8 Japanese title-slips have been written and IG sheets 

 have been printed for this Catalogue. 



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

 cards are arranged in order of press-marks, 9,200 have been arranged, and 1.5,000 

 partially arranged preparatory to incorporation, and 119,000 have been incorporated. 



(i.) Catalogues of Books of Reference in the Reading Room. — The additions and 

 alterations in each of the interleaved copies of the Catalogue of books of reference 

 in the Reading Room, which are requisite to record the changes in this collection by 

 the addition of new works, and the exchange of old for new editions, have been made. 

 The number of additions to each of the interleaved copies of the Catalogue of this 

 collection was 4*9. 



The collection of books in the galleries of the Reading Room has continued to 

 receive additions by the incorporation of new works of interest and importance, and 

 the substitution of new for older editions. The number of additions to each of the 

 interleaved copies of the Catalogue of this collection was 196. 



The interleaved copy of the Subject-Index of the modern works added to the 

 Library in the years 1880-188-5 has been kept up to date by the Superintendent of 

 the Reading Room, by the insertion of the title-slips of new books as soon as they 

 are printed. An enlarged and improved Catalogue of the Special Bibliographies in 

 the Reading Room has been printed and published. 



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

 •course of the year was 15,142, including 1,471 volumes of newspapers. In consequence 

 of the frequent adoption of the plan of binding two or more volumes in one, the 

 number of bound volumes retui'ued was 7,924 ; in addition to which 623 pamphlets 

 have been separately bound. 978 volumes have been repaired. 



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

 Library from use in the Reading Room was 744,367; to the Royal Library, 13,223 ; to 

 the Grenville Library, 855 ; and to the presses in which books are kept from day to 

 day for the use of readers, 452,975 ; making a total amount of 1,211,420 volumes 

 supplied to readers during the year. The number of readers during the year has 

 been 190,025, giving an average of about 627 daily ; and an average of over six 

 volumes daily for each reader, not reckoning those taken from the shelves of the 

 Reading Room. 



Neivspaper Room. — The total number of readers during the year has been 14,524 

 giving a daily average of nearly 48. Tlie number of volumes replaced after use was 

 '47,742, giving a daily average of about three volumes to each reader. 



V. Duplicates. — A special feature of the year's work has been the distribution of 

 many thousand duplicate books, chiefly among University and Free Libraries, a small 

 proportion being reserved for the working libraries of the other Departments of the 

 Museum, including the Museum of Natural History. The other libraries participating 

 in this donation have been the Bodleian, the Cambridge University Library, the Guild- 

 hall Library ; the libraries of the Fitzwilliam Museum, the Royal Botanic Garden, Kew, 

 the Royal Academy of Music, and the Royal College of Music ; the Free Libraries of 

 Edinburgh, Manchester, Liverpool, Leeds, Birmingham, Bradford, Newcastle, Notting- 

 ham ; the Mitchell Library, Glasgow ; and the library of Toynbee Hall. A donation of 

 public documents offered to the National Library, Dublin, was declined, the publica- 

 tions being already there. As stated above, 41,271 transfer stamps have been impressed 

 upon these duplicates, and this enumeration is exclusive of a large number impressed, 

 under a special arrangement, by some of the libraries receiving the books. 



VI. Additions. — (a.) 32,501 volumes and pamphlets (including 208 books of music) 

 have been added to the Library in the course of the year, of v.'hich 4,695 were 

 presented, 9,468 received in pursuance of the lav/s of English copyright, 35 received 

 under the international copyright treaties, 657 by international exchange, and 17,646 

 acquired by purchase. 



national 7opyright treaties, 929 by international exchange, and 25,518 acquired by 

 purchase. 



(c.) The number of sets of newspapers published in the United Kingdom, and 

 received under the provisions of the Copyright Act during the past year has been 

 9 391 comprisino- 170,052 single numbers. 608 of these newspapers Avere published 

 hi London and°its suburbs, 1,408 in other parts of England and Wales and the 

 Channel Islands, 214 in Scotland, and 101 in Ireland. Eight volumes and 503 single 

 numbers of old newspapers, belonging to five different sets, have been purchased. 

 70 volumes and 1,233 single numbers of foreign and colonial new.spapers, belonging to 



Q^^ ' 13 2 95 different 



