Excerpt from A List of the Books of Reference in the Reading Room of the British Museum
The works in progress have, as far as possible, been carried up to the end of 1870. A new Plan has been prepared.
The few changes which have taken place in the arrange ments of the Reading Room and in the staff, are indicated in foot-notes to the Preface of the present edition.
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