536 



EEPORT OP^ NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1903. 



museum, until it was deposited in Oxford. In 1877 there was pub- 

 lished a very vakiable printed catalogue by Lane Fox." 



Since then, however, the collection has increased, mostly through 

 donations, and only slightly by purchase and exchange. The annual 

 expenditure of the ethnographic section of the university museum is 

 only f 1,000, from which also an assistant nuist be paid, and occasional 

 smaller sums allotted for additional purchases. Under these circum- 

 stances its progress is all the more remarkable. 



Figs. 84 and 85 give representations of the interior. The Gothic 

 building with skylights is not very suitable and is in some respects 

 unattractive and unadapted to museum purposes (see, for example, tig. 

 85, part of a gallery). That the Gothic style is suitable for nmseum 

 buildings is demonstrated b}- several American examples (University 

 of Chicago, see p. 491), but it must be applied in a very different 

 manner than in Oxford, where the typical Gothic halls are found 

 without modification. 



The system is as follows: 



PRINCIPAL GROUPS OF SPECIMENS. 



I. Prehistoric: 



Grouped by period . 



Grouped by form and 

 locality. 



Paleolithic period: British Islands, France, Egypt, 



India, Africa, Tasmania (recent). 

 Cave period. 



Kitchen riiiddens, ancient and modern 

 Neolithic period: British Islands, France, Swiss and 



Italian lakes, Italy, Greece, Scandinavia. 

 Stone celts (axes and adzes) in geograi)hical and 



morphological groups. 

 Hammer-stones, pounders, rubbing-stones, etc. 

 Cores and flakes, worked-flahes. 

 Scrapers. 



Knives, lance-heads, etc. 

 Arrow-heads. 



Manufacture of stone implements, methods used. 

 Natural-forms. 

 Modern gun-flint making. 

 Forgeries. 



Hafting of stone and sJicll implements. 

 Use of bone, ivory, and horn in manufacture of implements — 

 Bronze age — 



Age of copper. 



Age of bronze, celts {development of forms), knives, razors, chisels, 

 daggers and swords, spear-heads, arrow-heads, mace-lieads, rings, 

 miscellaneous. 

 Iron age: Early axes and adzes, spear-heads and arrow-heads, swords and 

 daggers. 



« Catalogue of the anthnjpological collection lent by Col. Lane Fox for exhibition 

 in the Bethnal Green Branch of the South Kensington Museum, 1874, xvi, 184 pp., 

 14 plates. 



