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nuing the Register of the Museum, and of completing the Pictorial 
Catalogue. 
This sum, however, has not been as yet expended. The Com- 
mittee have ordered, that the Register of the Museum, commenced 
some years ago, shall be completed, as a necessary preliminary step 
to the formation of a Catalogue. In accordance with this order, 
Dr. Aquilla Smith has kindly assisted in weighing all the gold 
articles, entering their dimensions and weights in the Register; and 
Mr. Clibborn is now engaged in filling up the column of the Re- 
gister headed “* How procured,” which will tell whether the ar- 
ticle has been obtained by donation or by purchase. He is adding 
also a reference to the sheet of the Pictorial Catalogue (so far as it 
has been hitherto completed), in which each article is portrayed, 
with such other notices as can now be added, tending to complete 
its history and identification. 
With a view to the continuation of the Pictorial Catalogue, the 
Committee procured specimens of drawings from three artists, 
which they did not, however, find quite satisfactory. They have it, 
therefore, under consideration, whether the recent improvements in 
photography may not afford the means of attaining this object, 
more economically, as well as more effectually, than by ordinary 
drawings. The Calotype process, for example, appears to offer 
many advantages, as its results may be multiplied ad libitum, and 
Members, or foreign scientific bodies, supplied with copies of 
our Pictorial Catalogue at a very reasonable cost. It is to be ob- 
served also, that the pictures thus obtained will bear microscopic 
examination, and will thus record what no human hand or eye 
could otherwise portray. The season of the year, however, has 
hitherto been unfavourable to experiments on the practicability or 
expediency of this suggestion; but the Committee hope very soon 
to arrive at a satisfactory conclusion. They are now engaged in 
considering the most economical means of producing the Calotype 
pictures, as it seems probable, so far as they can now form an 
opinion, that the cost of the process is probably the only objection 
to its adoption. 
The following is a list of the antiquities purchased by the Com- 
mittee of Antiquities during the past year :— 
