iJ() MUSEUMS. 



B.-MAYER MUSEUM. 



(a) General. 



In the Mayer Museum the collections of Caucasian, Mongolian 

 and Melanian Ethnology have been re-arranged, and to the 

 exhibition of the handiwork of each race, separate galleries have 

 now been assigned. 



Progress has been made in the rearrangement of the Caucasian 

 Section by the disposal of the Egyptian Antiquities on the floor of 

 the Main Hall, which, for their accommodation, has been completely 

 re-furnished with cases, many of them new, in which the collection 

 is exhibited in chronological sequence of Dynasties. 



The copy of the Papyrus of An/, presented by Mr. J. Gibson, has 

 been mounted in four large frames and displayed in the centre of 

 the Hall. Translated and annotated by Mr. LI. Griffith, the 

 distinguished Egyptologist, at Mr. Gibson's request and expense, 

 this donation forms one of the most interesting and instructive 

 exhibits in the Egyptian Department. 



The collection of European Pottery and Porcelain has been 

 transferred from its former location to the balcony of the Main Hall. 



In the Mongolian Department, to which the Upper Mayer 

 Gallery has now been assigned, considerable progress has been 

 made in displaying the collections, numerous specimens being now, 

 for the first time, exhibited after being stowed away for many years. 



In regard to the Melanian Ethnology, the re-arrangement of the 

 African Section has been completed in the Mayer Basement, and 

 many specimens here also, which had been long stowed away, have 

 been brought into the light, and, as will be seen below, numerous 

 additions have been made to it during the past year, especially by 

 Mr. Copland-Crawfurd, 11.13.M. Commissioner, Nigeria, and by 

 Mr. A. Pidyard, Chief Engineer in the service of Messrs. Elder, 

 Dempster and Co., who has, now for many years, personally and 

 through his friends on the West African Coast, been most assiduous 

 in collecting for the Mayer Museum. 



