44 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM. 



Brahman Room. — After structural alterations, the exhibition of 

 Brahman antiquities and the series of Gandhara sculptures has been 

 almost completed in what was formerly the students' room of the 

 Department of Prints and Drawings. 



Asiatic Saloo7i. — Three table-cases have been removed to King- 

 Edward VII. gallery and others containing oriental swords trans- 

 ferred from the Ethnographical Gallery. Much of the porcelain has 

 also been removed, to accommodate exhibits of oriental art, especially 

 metal- work. The collection of netsukes and other Japanese carvings 

 has been re-arranged, and the cases placed on temporary plinths. 



Etlinograpldcal Gallery. — A collection of Malayan silver has 

 been arranged in table-cases and labelled ; and various additions 

 made to most sections. A large standard case and four table-cases 

 of oriental arms have been removed to the Asiatic Saloon. 



Registration. — The registration of current acquisitions has been 

 continued, and 1,322 objects have been added, including ethno- 

 graphical specimens. Numbers have been painted on 1,293 

 specimens, and 969 permanent labels written. 



Objects have been mounted to the number of 1,474, and the 

 card-catalogue of the departmental library continued. 



The series collected by Sir M. A. Stein and formerly exhibited 

 in King Edward VII. gallery, has been divided for distribution. 



Many of the most valuable exhibits have been removed from the 

 galleries in view of possible air-raids. 



Puhlications. — The catalogue of Engraved Gems of the post- 

 classical period was published in March. Current additions have 

 been made to the slip-catalogue of Oriental pottery and porcelain, 

 and further illustrations prepared for the Romano-British and 

 Anglo-Saxon guides. A report of the excavations conducted at 

 Rickmansworth in 1914 has been prepared and published in 

 Archo'ologia, vol. Ixvi., 195. 



Students. — 1,488 students and visitors have been received in the 

 Department, and a demonstration given in the Prehistoric section 

 by a member of the staff. 



2. Principal Acquisitions. 

 (1.) Prehistoric and Early British Antiquities. 



(a) Stone Age. — A series of chipped flints found below the Orag 

 deposits and in the middle glacial sands near Ipswich : described by 

 Sir E. Ray Lankester in Philosophical Transactions, Series B, vol. 

 202, pp. 283-336 (1912). Collected and presented by J. Reid Moir, 

 Esq. 



An ovate flint implement found in the raised beach at Brighton. 

 Presented hy W. Beane,Esq. 



A series of flint implements, flakes and cores of Le Moustier 

 date, from the C^oombe-rock at Northfleet, Kent : described in 



