42, MUSEUMS. 
(6) Loans anp Deposits. 
The collection of Chinese Porcelain, decorated after the Japanese 
style, 17th and 18th centuries; deposited by Mr. John Mellor, Junr., 
June 24th, 1904, has remained on exhibition during the past year, 
and the same gentleman and Mr. J. Duveen have lent a comparative 
exhibit of Japanese Porcelain. 
The Stone Quern, from an old farm at Sefton, deposited by 
Mr. W. E. Gregson, still remains on loan; also the Steatite head, 
from Mano, Mendi country, Sierra Leone, West Africa, deposited 
by Mr. W. E. C. Morriss. 
(c) ExcHANGEs. 
The following objects were received from Dr. H. C. Bumpus, 
Director, the American Museum of Natural History, New York, in 
exchange for duplicate Ethnographical objects, as per minute 
September 15th, 1905 :— 
Plaster casts from life of heads of American Indians and 
Philippine Islanders (1. 8. 06. 1-12), Wichita, Sioux, Zuni, Moqui, 
Apache, and two other North American Indian types, and a Visayan, 
Tagalo and Igorotes of the Philippines are represented. 
(d) AcquIsITIONS. 
(1.) GENERAL. 
Tobacco-box made of oak, from Haworth Castle (destroyed by fire 
1844) (16.3.06.44), seven tablets of Scriptural subjects, by Hemming, 
London, 1820-1821, carved wooden toothpicks ? (16. 3. 06. 45 and 66), 
bronze and leaden medallions commemorating the opening of 
institutions and the visits of Royalty and others (16. 3. 06. 46-65) ; 
collected by the late J. F. Leigh Clare, Esq., and presented by the 
Misses Clare, ‘‘ Holmeleigh,” King’s Gap, Hoylake. 
Honiton lace pillow in process of making (11. 7. 06.1); purchased. 
Two tetradrachms of Athens (14. 12. 06. 2, 3), found at Beni 
Hasan, 1904, by Mr. John Garstang; presented iets the Egyptian 
Government. 
