58 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM. 



Department of British and Medieval Antiquities and 

 Ethnography. 



1. Arrangement, Cataloguing, Sfc. 



Prehistoric Room. — The exhibition drawers have been overhauled 

 and a number o£ additions made. 



Iron Age Gallery. — The arrangement o£ the collections illustrating 

 the Early and Later Iron Ages was completed and the gallery opened 

 to the public in January, 1919. 



Room of Roman Britain. — The exhibition drawe-rs have been 

 overhauled and fresh labels added. 



King Edward VII. Gallery {Ground fioor). — There-arrangement 

 of the Mediaeval and of the Ceramic collections, which had been 

 packed and removed for safety, is in progress ; the English and 

 Italian pottery and the foreign porcelain have been arranged, and a 

 temporary arrangement of the Chinese porcelain made. 



Christian Room, and Buddhist Room. — The arrangement in 

 exhibition cases of the early Christian collections, and of those 

 illustrating Buddhism, has been completed, and these rooms were 

 opened to the public in April, 1919. A number of fresh labels have 

 been pre})ared for the lattc^r collection. 



Room of hidian Religions. — Some re-arrangement of the Gand- 

 hara sculptures has been made, and a number of fresh labels provided 

 for these and for the Jain sculptures. The room was opened to the 

 public in January, 1919. 



Asiatic Saloon. — The arrangement of the Chinese and Japanese 

 collections and of oriental metal work has been completed ; the 

 Stein collections from Chinese Turkestan have been placed in 

 exhibition cases, and a temporary exhibition of Buddhist scrolls was 

 arranged for the Conference of the Asiatic Societies of the Allied 

 Nations. 



Accommodation is also provided for an ethnographical collection 

 from Uganda, deposited by His Majesty the King. The room was 

 re-opened to the public in January, 1919. 



Plaquette Room. — -The arrangement and labelling of the pla- 

 quettes has been completed, and the room opened to the public 

 early in 1919. 



Ethnogrcqjhical Gallery. — The gallery was re-opened to the 

 public in February, 1919. A temporary arrangement of a portion 

 of the Mexican and Peruvian Antiquities has been made in the 

 Asiatic section. The ivory carvings from Benin, the Hawaiian 

 feather cloaks, and the Fijian pottery, which had been removed for 

 safety, have been re-exhibited ; type cases illustrating primitive 

 currency and methods of making fire have been arranged and labelled 

 for demonstration by Museum Lecturers, and a number of additions 

 made to the exhibits in the African section. 



