14 ACCOUNTS, &C., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUiM. 



1643, bound in needlework embroidery, resembling the productions of the community 

 at Little Gidding, with a portrait of Charles I. worked in the centre ; The first edition, 

 1758, of Goldsmith's first work, " Memoirs of a Protestant condemned to the Galleys 

 of France for his Religion," published under the name of James Willington ; Hume's 

 tract on Scotticisms, printed in his works, but of which no other separate copy is 

 known to exist ; five broadsides of the reign of James I., three relating to the post, 

 one to the colony of Virginia, and one forbidding resort to Court in time of 

 pestilence. 



Two important sets of photographs have been added to the Library during the 

 past year. 



1. The work of Mr. E. Muybridge, " Animal Locomotion, an electro-photo- 

 graphic investigation of consecutive phases of animal movements," published 

 under the auspices of the University of Pennsylvania, and consisting of 781 plates, 

 representing animals and human beings in motion, comprising upwards of 20,000 



figures. 



2. Photographic fac-similes of eighty-two Herculanean papyri, made at the expense 

 of the Oxford Philological Society, and including all the Herculanean papyri at 

 Oxford not previously published. 



The Library has received three important donations during the past year ; a very 

 extensive collection of French caricatures of the period of the Commune, mounted, 

 and bound in ten folio volumes, presented by M. F. Justen ; an extensive collection 

 of Colonial newspapers from 1877 to 1882, presented by the Colonial Office ; and 70 

 volumes of colonial newspapers for 1887, presented by the Royal Colonial Institute. 



The additions to the collection of Music during the year 1889 include a unique 

 copy of the "Lautenbuch" of Hans Gerle, of Nurnberg, 1583, a work the existence of 

 which was only made known in 1886 ; an . extremely rare edition of Banchieri's 

 " Cartella over Regole utilissime a quelli che desiderano imparare il Canto figurato " 

 (Venice, 1601) ; Spartario's " Errori de Franchino Gafurio," Bologna, 1521, a rare 

 book, which has long been wanted to complete the collection of works relating to 

 Gaforus in the Library ; a fine copy of the full score of Spontini's " Olympia," 

 containing an autograph letter from the composer and additional portraits ; and 

 copies of the Junta "Graduale" (Venice, 1500) and the Swedish "Graduale" of 1620. 



R. Garnett. 



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



I. — Cataloguing and Arrangement. 



2.G47 titles (inchiding both main-titles and cross-references) were written for the 

 Catalogue of Maps and Charts during the year. 



Press-marks were given to 388 Maps, Charts, and Atlases, and to 2,338 titles ; 

 and 2,158 slips were written for the Hand Catalogue. 



2,969 titles of Accessions (Parts xii. and xiii.) were sent to the printer, 20;| sheets 

 of "Proof" cf Accessions were collated, and 17.;, sheets of "Revise" Avere sent for 

 " Press " and printed oft". 



562 Maps in 2,201 sheets, and 41 Atlases were sent to be mounted, bound, 

 and lettered ; and 39 volumes and 539 Maps have been returned ; of the former, 

 23 wei^e bound, 15 lettered, and 1 repaired ; of the latter, 182 were mounted on 

 jaconet and union, and 357 on ca,rds. 



78 sheets of the English Admiralty Charts, 540 sheets of the " Hydrographie 

 Frangaise," 21 sheets of the English 1-inch Ordnance Survey, and 26 sheets of the 

 6-inch Ordnance Survey have been mounted on union. 



Six vols, of the Ordnance Survey of Towns, 36 vols, of the 25-inch, and 1 vol. of 

 the 6-inch Ordnance Survey have been bound. 



2,052 printed Accession titles (Part xii.) have been incorporated into three copies 

 of the Printed Catalogue of Maps. 



The number of Atlases returned to their shelves from the Reading Room was 985, 

 the number of Maps 1,529, making a total of 2,514. 



The number of stamps impressed on maps obtained by purchase was 977, on those 

 received by presentation 804, making a total of 1,281. 



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

 during the year, 196^ visitors have been admitted to the Map Room for the purpose of 

 geographical research. 



