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roonis. A temporary exhibition illustrative of tlie contents of 

 tliese two rooms has been arranged in the Third Vase Room. 



The exhibition of Greek and Roman Life has been re- 

 arranged and renumbered throughout in correspondence with the 

 new edition of the Guide. 



In the Terracotta Room a rearrangement of the exhibited 

 and_ unexhibited collections has been made and a new Finding 

 List of Terracottas prepared. The Finding List of Bronzes is 

 similarly in process of revision ; the standard case of large 

 bronzes has been refitted and rearranged to permit of the inclusion 

 of the Astor statue. In the Terracotta Room and the Room of 

 Ancient Life, all cases have been boarded up and shades removed 

 during repainting; at the conclusion of this, the rooms have 

 been restored to exhibition. A rearrangement of unexhibited 

 gems is in progress ; and a large number of case fittings for the 

 Gold Ornament Room have been made. 



A temporary exhibition illustrative of the collections made by 

 the Salonica Expeditionary Force ha,s been arranged in the 

 Room of Ancient Life. Sixty-nine vases, fifty-six terracottas, 

 two gold, four silver, twenty-two iron, sixty-four bronze, one 

 wood, two stone and two glass objects have been cleaned and 

 repaired. Casts have been made from three hundred and ninety 

 gems and from two terracotta moulds. Seventy-one terracottas, 

 sixty-eight bronzes and two hundred and forty-eight rings and 

 gems have been mounted. Three hundred and eighty objects were 

 registered, and one thousand three hundred and eight numbered ; 

 seventy-four labels were written and forty-seven printed. One 

 hundred and eight vases were measured to supply materials for 

 the study of Mr. Jay Hambidge's system. 



The number of visits to the Departmental Library and 

 Students' Room for the purposes of research was 359 ; there were 

 1,450 visits to the staff for enquiry or on Denartmental business. 

 Seventy-nine tickets were issued and 2T renewed to students of 

 art and architecture, who made 1,272 "attendances in the Sculp- 

 ture Galleries, 



3. Puhlications. — The revised editions of the Guide to the 

 Exhibition of Ancient Life and of the Departmental Guide have 

 been issued. The Catalogue of Silver Plate has been set up in 

 type. Progress has been made with the Catalogue of Yases, 

 Vol. I., part I, and with the revised edition of the Catalogue of 

 Gems. Four new sets of pictorial postcards have been placed on 

 sale, the subjects being Greek Terracottas, Greek Sculpture in 

 Relief, Greek Statuary, and Roman Imperial Portraits. Two 

 sets have been reissued, namely the Exhibition of Greek and 

 Itoman Life, and the Frieze of the Parthenon. 



II. — Acquisitions. 

 I. — Sculpture in Stone and Marble. 

 1. — Unfinished statuette of the archaic Apollo type; height 

 •39 metre. Found in the Stamato Vouni Quarry, on 

 Mount Pentelicus in Attica. Revue Archeologique, 4th 

 series, XI., p. 40. Presented by the late Canon Rawn- 

 sley through the National Art-Collections Fund. 



