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B.—_MAYER MUSEUM. 
(a) GENERAL. 
The following is the arrangement of the galleries in this Museum. 
In the upper floor are to be found illustrations of the history, art and 
craft of the various families of the Mongolian Race; on the ground 
floor, together with the Main Hall and its balcony, those of the 
Caucasians, and in the basement those of the Melanian peoples. 
The Committee contributed one share—amounting to £100—to 
Mr. John Garstang’s excavations in Upper Egypt, and received as 
. their share—lot 6—consisting of a large collection of objects—most 
of them, unfortunately, duplicates, and all in a very fragmentary 
condition, of specimens already in the Museum collection—from 
Esna, Abydos, Hierakonpolis, &c., which are detailed under the 
Caucasian section in this Report. 
It is to be regretted that with lot 6 the Mayer Museum received 
none of the objects collected in Nubia, which was ¢he important site 
worked at during the season. It had been hoped that in each lot 
there would have been a fair set of objects from every site at which 
excavations were made, and that a// the material—important or 
unimportant—would have been divided among the ten shareholders. 
The Committee has not subscribed to the excavations of 1906-1907. 
Several interesting objects illustrative of Local Art and 
Archeology have been received and placed in the room devoted to 
that branch. 
The collection of Chinese porcelain of the 16th and 17th centuries, 
lent by Mr. John Mellor, Junr., has continued on exhibition 
during the past year, and the same gentleman, in conjunction with 
Mr. J. Duveen, prepared and lent on deposit a comparative exhibit 
of Japanese porcelain, which is exhibited in one half of the same 
case. Both groups have attracted much attention from connoisseurs 
and collectors. 
The Melanian department continues to receive numerous 
acquisitions from various parts of Africa, particularly from the 
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