Circulation Returns
The Tower keeps no account of who its readers are and has never asked. It keeps this instead: a record of which holdings were consulted, and by which of the bodies that correspond with the archive regularly enough to be entered in the register.
- Period
- the last 7 days
- Transcribed
- 872 holdings
- Outstanding
- 6,943 requests in the register
Correspondents entered in the register
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6741 held
The Numerous Delegation
Attended on 8 days.
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4539 held
The Petalline Survey
Attended on 8 days.
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3508 held
The Bureau of Adjacent Interests
Attended on 8 days.
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3039 held
The Society of Crustrial Mechanics
Attended on 7 days.
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2623 held
The Office of Reciprocal Citation
Attended on 7 days.
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2423 held
The Desk of Immediate Answer
Attended on 5 days.
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1376 held
The Concordance's Second Clerk
Attended on 7 days.
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1110 held
The Concordance of Open Doors
Attended on 7 days.
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533 held
The Office of Second Thought
Attended on 8 days.
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504 held
The Concordance of Competing Registers
Attended on 4 days.
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264 held
The Common Repository
Attended on 3 days.
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232 held
The Bureau of Universal Précis
Attended on 2 days.
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3 held
Enquiry by Proxy
Attended on 3 days.
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1 held
The Crier's Round
Attended on 1 day.
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1 held
The Discreet Concordance
Attended on 1 day.
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1 held
The Discreet Enquiry Desk
Attended on 1 day.
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1 held
The Office of Assigned Precedence
Attended on 1 day.
A further 17,162 consultations were made by correspondents who gave no account of themselves. The Tower does not enquire and has no means of doing so.
Consulted by more than one correspondent
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MS 4660.81
Catalogue of Unheard Melodies
10 correspondents.
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MS 8165.46
Class Gamma: Temporally Deferred Imperatives
9 correspondents.
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MS 2131.62
Conceptual Zoning
9 correspondents.
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MS 0309.41
Principle of Anticipatory Concession
9 correspondents.
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MS 2285.11
Provisional Sigil (Ψ)
9 correspondents.
Returns are compiled from consultations and nothing else. The Office of Metric Assurance does not undertake to say what a correspondent wanted, only what it was given. The Tower's own dimensions are reckoned separately, and no more completely, in the Partial Survey.