MUSEUMS. Ill 



(3.) Ethnography. 

 PKE-HISTORIC : — 



Five photographs (26.2.00.55) of Eolithic flint implements from 

 the Plateau, Ash, Kent; photograph of stone implements (26. 2. 00. 

 56), from Whitepark Bay, Ireland: photograph of stone implements 

 (26.2.00.57) from Wady Haifa, Egypt: photograph of Hint (?) 

 implements (26.2.00.58) from America: presented by Mr. Pi. 1). 

 Darbishire. 



ETHIOPIAN RACE. 



Africa. —West and South-west Africa: — 



List of specimens collected and presented by Mr. A. Ridyard, 

 Chief Engineer, s.s. "Niger" (Elder, Dempster & Co. i : — 



Goudi seeds, used to prevent the bleeding of the gums (26. 2. 00. 

 1), Jelouf tribe, St. Louis; purgative powder (26. 2. 00. 2); dree 

 gree (29. <5. 00. 34) ; Senegal. 



From Sierra Leone: — Native soap (26. 2. 00. •'!): wooden comb, 

 with chain and boat attached, carved out of one piece of wood, made 

 by the Susus (26. 2. 00. 52). 



From the Gold Coast : — 



Lagos : —Native Soap (20. 2. 00. 4): Medicine (20. 2. 00. 5); 

 Native Blacksmith's Outfit, i.e., Bellows of wood with two iron 

 tubes and long clay nozzle, iron pincers, large iron punch, five iron 

 punches, three iron chisels, scraper, iron frame for nail ( P) making, 

 two clay crucibles, and four moulds for gold ( ?) work, impressed 

 in Sepia officinalis (24. 9. 00. 3). 



From the Cameroons : — 



Plaited Grass Gourd (26. 2. 00. 6), Bassa : two Cane Rattles 

 (29. 5. 00. 1-2): Wooden Spoou (24. 9. 00. 4), Atahs, Rio del Rex- 

 Plaited Grass Purse (24. 9. 00. 5): Canoe. Paddle, and Fishing 

 Lines (20. 2. 00. 9), Batanga ; two Pop-guns (29. 5. 00. 0): Carved 

 Bbony Stick (24. 9. 00. ? i. N'gombi Plantation: Spear (24. 9. 00. 

 25), Bulu, Batanga: Carved Ebony Walking-stick (26. 2. 00. 49). 

 Hatanga. 



