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for doing so. The Assistant Curator, Mr. P. Entwistle, has been 

 constantly employed in labelling specimens and in adding explanatory 

 drawings and photographs, which add greatly to the interest and value 

 of the collection. The addition of these photographs and drawings 

 is being continued as rapidly as they can be obtained or made. A set 

 of photographs of Kru-boys from Liberia, West Africa, were taken from 

 the life, and have been enlarged for exhibition in the Ethnographical 

 Galleries, as well as a series from original negatives of the natives 

 of Taupota, S.E. New Guinea. 



(b) Loans and Dpiposits. 



The following objects were lent as below : — 



Negatives of a Celtic Cup and Mirror to J. Eomilly Allen, Esq., for 

 reproduction in the " Archasologia Cambreusis," illustrative of his paper 

 on Late Celtic Art ; also four Negatives of a Trepanned Skull from Eastry 

 Churchyard, Kent, to Dr. R. Munro, for reproduction in his work on 

 " Trepanning." These were duly returned safely with the thanks of the 

 respective borrowers. 



The following manuscripts have been lent to the Palseographical 

 Society, University College : — " History of the World, Sacred and 

 Profane," upon a roll of vellum 22 feet long, Italian ? 13th century, 

 M. 12017, and " Selections from the Fathers, SS. Augustine, Gregory, 

 Anselm, &c.," English, early 14th century, M. 12036. 



The collection of Ethnographical Objects from New Guinea, deposited 

 by Mr. W. H. Livesey in this Museum in May, 1893, having been 

 purchased from him by Lady Meux (Theobald's Park, Waltham Cross, 

 Herts, per Upton & Britain, Solicitors. 51, Lincoln's Inn Fields, London), 

 was despatched to Lady Meux, October 12th, 1896. 



The following photographs, taken by the Museum Stafi", have been sent 

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

 illustrate works on which they may be engaged : — 



Anglo-Saxon Fibulfe and Pendants, Ornaments, and a late Celtic Cup 

 and Mirror, to Dr. 0. Montelius, Sweden, and Professor W. Ridgway, 

 Cambridge; the Four Faces of the Ancient Egyptian Pyramidion and the 

 Sarcophagus of Bakhenkhonsu, to Dr. Schmidt, Copenhagen ; the 

 Sarcophagus of Bakhenkhonsu, to M. P. Hippolite Boussac, Paris • 



