MUSEUMS. 49 
B—MAYER MUSEUM. 
(a) GENERAL. 
The Melanian Department continues as hitherto to receive 
numerous acquisitions from West and South-West Africa. Mr. 
Ridyard, Chief Engineer (Elder, Dempster & Co.), has continued 
his donations of desirable objects to this Department. 
(b) Loans anp Deposits. 
The facsimiles of a group of Ancient Irish Antiquities, lent by 
Messrs. Johnson & Sons, Dublin, still remain on exhibition. 
The Collection of Chinese and Japanese Porcelain, lent by Mr. 
John Mellor, Junr., still remains on exhibition. 
A small collection of fragments of Pottery illustrating Glazes, 
__ &e., has been deposited by Prof. P. E. Newberry. 
Through Mr. Gordon Saies a small collection of Chinese 
Porcelain has been received on deposit. 
(c) EXcHANGES. : 
No exchanges have been effected during the past year. 
(d) Acquisirions. 
(1) MisceLLaneovs. 
Presented : 
Catalogue of Arms and Armour at Sandringham House, by Her 
Majesty Queen Alexandra (deposited in the Free Library). 
‘Two Liqueur Glasses, English, by Mrs. Charles A. Field. 
Square of Silk with designs copied from a native cloth from 
Jellah Coffee, West Africa, in the Museums, made and presented 
by Messrs. Watson Jacques & Co, 
