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The Assistanf Curator, Mr. P. Entwistle, has been constantly 

 employed in labelling specimens, and adding to them explanatory 

 drawings and photographs, which add greatly to the interest and 



value of the collection, as well as the preparation of the series of 

 enlargements of the Races of Mankind for the Anthropological 

 Boom, for the British Museum, and Cambridge University, as well 

 as for the illustrations of the Bulletin of the Liverpool Museums. 



The following photographs, taken by the Assistant Curator, have 

 been sent to the undermentioned investigators to assist in their 

 studies, or to illustrate works on which they may be engaged: — 



Group of carved adzes from the Hervey Islands, to Dr. Frobenius, 

 Leipzig ; enlargement of the head of a Kru boy, Liberia, to Prof. 

 K. Starr, Chicago University ; specimen enlargement of a Kru boy 

 to Prof. Giglioli, Florence. During the past year forty-three 

 enlargements of heads of Caucasian, Ethiopian and Mongolian types, 

 and eight enlargements of fiuger prints, have been sent to the British 

 Museum, and twelve to the Anthropological Museum (Prof. A. 

 Macalister), Cambridge University. 



(//) Loans and Deposits. 

 The collection of New Zealand Ethnographical objects formed by 

 Major-General H. Cj. Robley has remained on exhibition. 



Two manuscripts (1) " Treatise on Moral Philosophy," by S. 

 Thomas Aquinas, German, loth century (12,037), and (2) Portion 

 of the History of Home, by Eutropius, Italian, A..D. 1528 (12,068), 

 have been lent for palyeographical study to the Librarian, University 

 College, Liverpool. 



(e) Exchanges. 



The following flint and stone implements (29.5.00.38-55) found 

 in various localities in Ireland, were received in exchange from 

 Mr. W. -I. Knowles for duplicate Egyptian stone implements: — 

 Fifteen cores and flakes, Island Magee : five flakes, Larne ; three 

 knackstones, four cores, six flakes and sixteen scrapers, fragments 

 of urns, teeth, jaw-bones, and shells Patella athletica and Littorina 

 littorea, examples from the kitchen middens at Whitepark Bay: 

 fifteen celts and flakes in basalt, showing process of manufacture, 



