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Purchases. 



Group of Ethnographical Objects, consisting of two Adzes, Solomon 

 Islands ; two Food Bowls, two Spoons, a Head-rest, and two Shell 

 Implements, made from the " Tridacna gigas," from New Guinea. 



Group of Ethnographical Objects, as follows : — Adze, with Tooth 

 head. Tortoise-shell Armlets, Lime gourd with spoon. Idols, Wand, 

 Head-rest, Club, Bone and Tortoise-shell Fish Hooks, Girdle Dress, 

 netted Cradle and three Bags, from Northern New Guinea. 



Pair of Japanese Vases. 



Sunderland Frog Mug and Spode Plate. 



Marble bust of George Canning. 



Ancient Egyptian Armlets, Kings, and a Pectoral plate. 



Twenty-nine Photographs of Natives of South Africa. 



Wooden Idol or Ornament, from New Ireland. 



Wedgwood " Queen's ware" plate, with a Sadler transfer print on it. 



Facsimiles of Twenty-nine of the most famous Diamonds of the World. 



WALKER ART GALLERY. 



The Gallery has been open on 285 days during the year, and closed for 

 cleaning and other purposes on 28 days. The total number of visitors 

 was 539,623, or a daily average attendance of 1,893. Included in the 

 above total are 80,000 visitors to the several Exliibitions, for which a 

 charge was made, and 9,879 pupils of schools, of various denominations, 

 admitted free. 



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