134 
and inclined to complete the history of the collection, it will only have 
to pay for the printing and paper.’ 
«¢ At the end of the session in July last, I laid a Report on the subject 
of the Museum and Catalogue before the Council, and it was inserted 
on the Minutes of the 19th of that month—to the following extracts 
from which I would draw the special attention of the Members of the 
Academy. 
‘“‘In reply to the circulars addressed to Members by the Treasurer 
and the Secretary of Council, orders were received for 345 copies, 44 
of which remained unpaid for. The public had purchased either through 
booksellers, or direct from the Academy, 75 copies, making in all asale 
of 420 copies up to 17th July, 1858, which produced, as I then under- 
stood, the sum of £82 6s. 2d., of which £8 remained due by Members. 
With that sum, I stated in my Report, that I had completed the following 
work :—‘ All the objects composed of animal material, amounting to 560 
specimens, exclusive of unmanufactured animal remains, or zoological 
specimens; the bronze articles, numbering 2898; all the iron articles 
to the amount of 485; all the articles kept together as ‘‘ Finds,” and 
numbering 748; the silver collection, amounting to about 230 specimens, 
and 180 of the gold ornaments, amounting altogether to 5101 articles, 
have been arranged, numbered, and registered. 
«<< The registration specifies or refers to documents either in print 
or writing, and contains all that is at present known about each article. 
Wherever it was possible, and that we could identify the articles accord- 
ing to the ‘‘numbers” and ‘‘ letters’ in the ‘‘ Old Registry” of the Mu- 
seum, we have specified such in a column set apart for that purpose, and 
the new number has been added (for the present in pencil) to the ‘‘ Old 
Registry ;”’ but as that book was not continued after the year 1853, and 
as more than four-fifths of the entries merely specify the size and weight 
of the article, it has afforded comparatively little information. All the 
old numbers of either our own or the ‘‘ Dawson” or “‘ Sirr’” Catalogues, 
which still remain, are attached to the reverse side of each article. All 
the cards and labels originally attached to the articles in the Museum 
have been preserved, and on each has been written the number which 
the article now bears in the present arrangement; so that they can be 
referred to in the revision and correction of any Catalogue which may 
hereafter be published. 
‘<< Those only who have been engaged for months on a work similar 
to the foregoing, especially upon such an incongruous mass as the Mu- 
seum presented prior to March, 1857, can form any idea of the time, 
labour, and research, required in the identification of these antiquities ; 
a single specimen often taking above fifteen minutes’ search to identify. 
«<The MS. registration which is now laid on the Council-table can 
only be regarded as the material or rough draft for the formation of a 
Catalogue similar to Part I. At the same time, it serves as a complete 
registration of the articles according to their new arrangement, and, as 
such, may be used until that work is completed. I shall require it 
while writing the MS. of the Catalogue. It now consists of 325 folio 
pages, and has been completed at a cost of £43 18s. 4d. 
