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Their findings, says Hoskin, were the basis for the New General Catalogue—a reference list of nebulae, star clusters, and galaxies that is still in use today.

The Curators reported, at the end of the annual list, that considerable progress had been made towards the formation of a new general Catalogue.

Of all these classes a catalogue was published by Mr. Coxe in 1854, forming part iii. of the new general Catalogue of MSS.

The printed books are chiefly scientific and historical; these, with the books in the following collections, are now in process of incorporation into the new General Catalogue of the Library.

As in the course of making a new General Catalogue of the whole library, every separate volume and tract is now conspicuously stamped with the name of its locale, it is hoped that depredations of this character will be entirely checked.