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in sucli a way as to ensure the maximum of accessibility to 

 students under present conditions, and tlie provision of an index 

 to these collections is in progress. That portion of the Chinese 

 and other Oriental ethnographical collections which was stored 

 in cupboards in the King Edward YII. Gallery has been trans- 

 ferred to the basement. The unpacking of the Sturge Collection 

 and its arrangement and storage in cases has been completed. 



Registration, etc.-- — The registration of current acquisitions 

 has been continued and 1,614 objects have been added, including 

 ethnographical specimens. The cataloguing of the French and 

 Spanish pottery is in progress. Numbers have been painted on 

 1,825 specimens, and 1,296 permanent labels have been written. 

 Objects have been mounted to the number of 908; 380 ring- 

 mounts have been covered with cloth, and the rings mounted 

 upon them, and a number of ring-imjDressions made and mounted ; 

 52 mounting-boards have been prepared and a number of case 

 fittings covered with cloth; 529 labels have been typewritten and 

 114 printed; 118 photographs have been taken, 66 photographic 

 prints and 10 lantern-slides made. The wall-cases in the Pre- 

 histoTic Room, Iron Age Gallery, Room of Roman Britain, and 

 the Rooms of Oriental Religions have been photographed. A 

 large number of specimenis have been oleaned, nepaired and 

 restored. The card-catalogue of the departmental library has 

 been continued. 



Publications. — A istecond edition of the Bnonae Age Guide 

 and a monograph on the Chinese Statue of a Lohan have been 

 prepared and published. A Guide to the Room of Roman 

 Britain and a second edition of the Guide to the Early Christian 

 and Byzantine Antiquities are in preparation. A Catalogue of 

 the Mediaeval Enamels is in progress. A series of pictorial post- 

 cards illustrating Indian art with descriptive letterpress has been 

 published, and letterpress has been prepared for a series of post- 

 cards illustrating English porcelain. 



Much assistance has been given by Mr. Longworth Dames in 

 the preparation of a slip catalogue and in the arrangement and 

 labelling of the collections illustrating Oriental Religions, and 

 Mr. Oscar Raphael has devoted much time to the arrangement 

 of the Ceramic Collections. 



Two lectures have been delivered by a member of the Staff in 

 the Prehistoric Room and the Iron Age Gallery. 



Students. — 1,213 students and visitors have been received in 

 the Department. 



2 .—A cquisitions . 



(1) Prehistoric and Early British Antiquities: — 



(a) Stone Age. — Two palseoliths found at the Foreland, Isle 

 of Wight (see Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society, 

 XX YL, 542), and Warsash, N.E. of Southampton "Water respec- 

 tively, from the collection of the late Thomas Codrington, Esq., 

 F.G.S. Presented hy Commander G. G. Codrington. 



