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(b) Loans and Deposits. 



The collection of New Zealand Ethnographical objects formed by 

 Major-General H. GK Robley has remained on exhibition during the 



past year. 



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



Thomas Aquinas, German, 15th century (12,037), and (2) Portion 



of the History of Rome, by Eutropius, Italian, A.D. 1528 (12,008), 



have been lent for paheogiaphical study to the Librarian, University 



College, Liverpool. 



Three leaves of a papyri in the Hieratic characters, Xos. 11,102 



and 11,180, of the XXth dynas'ty, have been lent to Percy E. 



Newberry, Esq., for study at University College, London. 



A request from His Excellency the Duke de Loubat, Paris, for 

 permission to reproduce, at his cost, the celebrated Mexican Codex 

 (No. 12,014). known as the Fejervary or Mayer Codex, as one of the 

 series being published by him, was granted by the Museum Com- 

 mittee, and for thai purpose the volume was sent to him at Pans 

 (March 9th), at the Bibliotheque Nationale, and after reproduction 

 was safely returned to the Museum (October 4th), accompanied by a 

 copy of the reproduction. 



(e) Exchanges. 



Twenty-four eolithic Hint implements (28. 1. 1901. 47-70), from 

 the plateau at South Ash, Kent, received from Mr. R, D. Darbishire 

 in exchange for a few duplicate flint flakes from the Eastern Desert. 

 Egypt. 



Four paleolithic Hint implements (22. 4. 1901. 302-305), from 

 Warren Hill, Icklingham ; Santon Downham ; and ballast pit, near 

 Rennet Station, Suffolk: also a flint scraper (22. 4. 1901. 306) from 

 Icklingham, received in exchange, from Mr. James R. Corder for 

 nine duplicate flint implements from the Eastern Desert, Egypt. 



A large collection of Peruvian and other American Ethnographical 

 specimens (2-2. 4. 1901. 1-262) from the Field Columbian 

 Museum, Chicago, U.S.A., in exchange for duplicate Egyptian flint 

 implements from the Eastern Desert. The collection contains 



