The Office of Expansion was constituted to report on the growth of the holdings, the Partial Survey having been abandoned as insufficiently ambitious. Figures are provisional, have been approved, and are not reconciled against the Survey, which the Office considers a historical document.

Indicators for the present epoch

Holdings read

95 from no prior figure

Cross-references recorded

1,679 from no prior figure

Matters entered in dispute

388 from no prior figure

Plates commissioned

3 from no prior figure

Floors surveyed

9,000 unchanged

Comprehension

— flat

All indicators are consistent with growth. Where an indicator is not consistent with growth, the Office is satisfied that it reflects a consolidation ahead of further growth. The Office does not anticipate revising this position.

Comprehension remains flat across all epochs measured. The Office notes that comprehension is not among the indicators it was constituted to improve, and has recommended its removal from future reports. The recommendation is under dispute.