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(2.) CERAMICS. 



Xo acquisitions which can be classed under tin's head have been 

 received during the present year. 



(■'!.) Ethnography. 

 PEE-HIStfORIC: — 



Flint knives, saw, arrowhead, scraper, and Hake (25. : J. 1901. 2-7), 

 from El Arish, Palestine : purchased. 



Whetstone (21. 10. 1901. 3), two bone pins (21. 10. 1901. 4), eight 

 flint implements (21. 10. 1901. 5), from the Leasowe shore, collected 

 and presented by Mr. C. Boeder. 



Eleven flint cores (21. 10. 1901. 11), from Cass-na-Awin, and 

 Bonaldsway, Isle of Man : collected and presented by Mr. C. Boeder. 



A small collection of flint implements (21. 10. 1901. 12-19), com- 

 prising hammer-stone, cores, scrapers, flakes, arrowhead, &c, from 

 the Xeolithic settlement at the Bed Noses, New Brighton : 

 purcjiased. 



Twenty-seven paheeolithic flint implements, (14. 11. 1901. 1-27) 

 from Broome, Dorset; presented by Mr. B. 1). Darbishire. 



MELAXIAX BACE. 



Africa. — West and South-west Africa: — 



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

 Chief Engineer, ss. " Xiger " (Elder, Dempster & Co. ) : — 



Large basket (20. 5. 1901. 8), from Bathurst, River Gambia. 



From Sierra Leone: — Bamboo water bottles (28. I. 1901. 1-2), 

 gourd water bottle (28. 1. 1901. 3), wooden horn (28. 1. 1901. 4), 

 used by the Mendi carriers during the Ashantee campaign, 1900 : 

 basket. (5. 12. 1901. 2) ; carved juju (20. 5. 1901. 4), from the town 

 of Tobiah, interior of Sherbro country. 



From the C4old Coast: — - 



Native chair (23. 12. 1901. 1), made by the Susns, Sherbro: 

 pair of gourd calabashes, with poker work designs, made by the 

 Susus (5. 12. 1901. 1.) ; small earthenware couutry pot (5. 12. 1901. 



