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 MAYER MUSEUM. 



REPORT. 



During the past year a subscription copy, on large paper, of the 

 Mediaeval Catalogue was issued (with the Committee's permissiDn) by 

 Mr. G. G. Walmsley, of Lord Street. The work is illustrated with 

 twenty autotype plates of some of the principal objects in the collection, 

 and intended to make more widely known some of the treasures which 

 the Mayer Museum possess. The Rev. Fr. Strassmaier, S.J., has copied 

 and examined the inscriptions on the Babylonian clay tablets, and 

 described the same before the Congress of Orientalists, at Leyden, in 

 whose proceedings they will be published. Cases have been provided for 

 the Electrotypes of Coins presented by the Trustees of the British 

 Museum, and a stand for the Photographs of the Egyptian collection. 

 Numerous additions have been made in the Ethnographical Collection. 



At the request of the Marquess of Bute, permission has been given to 

 Mr. C. T. Gatty, the Curator, to accompany his Lordship on a visit to 

 the Museums and Art Treasures of Greece and Italy. It is believed 

 that the knowledge thus acquired by Mr. Gatty cannot fail to be of 

 advantage to the Museum under his care. 



DONATIONS. 



Two eighteenth century Quadrants, and two Compasses ; presented by 

 Mr. William Edkins, of Bristol. 



Print of an eighteenth century English Cutter ; presented by Mr. J. 

 H. Gibson. 



Doll, dressed in furs, &c., from Archangel ; presented by Mr. J. H. 

 Smart. 



Two Clay Weights (Greek Period), from Elephantine ; presented by 

 Rev. G. J. Chester. 



Lithographic reproduction of a View of London ; presented by Mr. 

 Charles H. Beloe. 



Model Canoe or Kayak, from Greenland ; also model of a Surf-boat, 

 from Mexico ; presented by Dr. A. F. W. Soldat. 



" McFarlane's Calculating Cylinder, Glasgow ; " presented by Mr. S. 

 Leigh-Gregson. 



