MUSEUMS. Ift 



(a) Loans. 



The following objects were, with the permission of the Committee, 

 lent as follows : — 



To the " Boot and Shoe Exhibition," held by the Cordwainers' Society, 

 in London, in June, a selection of 17 objects of leatherwork, consisting 

 of boots, shoes, drinking cups, caps, gloves, and dresses. 



To the " Exhibition of Egyptian Art," held at the Burlington Fine 

 Arts Club, in May, a selection of the smaller and more important 

 objects in the Egyptian Gallery. 



The small group of Franklin Eelics, collected by Dr. David Walker 

 during the voyage of the s.s. " Fox," to the " Franklin Commemoration 

 Exhibition," held in June, in Edinburgh, by the Royal Scottish 

 Geographical Society. 



To the exhibition held by the " International Geographical Congress," 

 in London, in July, Fergusson's Parallatic Rotula for finding the 

 Longitude at Sea, and Hadley's Quadrant. 



In July and August, a selection of thirty of the more important pieces 

 of Wedgwood Ware, to the Committee of the Wedgwood Institute, 

 Burslem, for exhibition at the Wedgwood Centenary Exhibition. 



These were all duly returned safe and in good order, with the grateful 

 thanks of the various Committees or Councils to whom they were lent. 



The iollowing photographs, taken by the Museum Staff, have been sent 

 to the undermentioned investigators to assist in their studies, or in works 

 on which they may be engaged : — 



Of four Masks from New Ireland and New Britain, one from Darnley 

 Island, Torres Straits, and two from West and Central Africa, to 

 Dr. Leo. N. Frobenius, Dresden ; of Anglo-Saxon Fibulae and 

 Pendant Ornaments, to Dr. Salin, Director of the National Museum, 

 Stockholm ; of the Four Faces of an ancient Egyptian Pyramidion, 

 to Dr. Schmidt, Copenhagen ; of eight pages of a Mexican Codex, 

 to Senor F. del Paso y Troncoso, Director of the National Museum, 

 Mexico ; and of a late Celtic Cup, to Mr. Arthur Evans, Curator of 

 the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, 



