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Gallery of Religions. — In this gallery a considerable 

 number of specimens have been incorporated, involving re- 

 arrangement of the objects. 



Gold Ornament Room. — -The transfer of the collections 

 from the old room to the new one has been completed, and the 

 new room opened to the public. Fittings have been made for 

 all the cases, the collections arranged in them, and a number 

 of labels written for the objects. 



A large series of drinking vessels of all periods and of 

 various materials, deposited on loan by Sir A. Wollaston 

 Franks, has been arranged in three wall-cases. 



The registration of current acquisitions has been continued, 

 and 598 objects have been registered, and 286 ethnographical 

 objects have been drawn and described for the Slip 

 Catalogue. 



Seventeen tablets and fifteen mounting boards have been 

 covered with paper, and 1,752 objects have been mounted. 

 Twenty-one boards and six tablets have been made. Sixty 

 plinths have been made, and objects mounted on them for 

 exhibition. 



Fifty-one labels have been painted ; eighty card-labels with 

 duplicates have been printed with the hand-press, and a large 

 number written; 300 tickets and IIG headings to slips printed. 

 Fifty-eight numbers have been written upon exhibition 

 cases. 



During the year there have been 1,578 visitors to the 

 Department. 



II. — Acquisitions. 



(1.) Early British and Prehistoric Antiquities : — 

 Fourteen British urns more or less complete, stone imple- 

 ments, bone pins, bronze chisels, very remarkable remains of 

 amber necklaces, and other objects, mostly found in barrows 

 near Lake, Wilts ; and obtained at the sale of the collection 

 of the Kev. Edward Duke. 



Worked bones from the River Kennet; presented by Joseph 

 Stevens, Esq. ; two bronze spearheads from Ireland and bone 

 awl from Erith; presented by F, C. J. Spurrell. Esq. 



Banded gold ring, or so-called ring-money, found at Rus- 

 tington, Sussex ; presented by Sir A. Wollaston Franks, 



K.C.B. 



Late Celtic bowl of pottery, found at Dundrum, Co. Antrim ; 

 presented by the Rev. Leonard Hasse ; and late Celtic bronze 

 collar, found at Trenowith, Cornwall. 



Twelve sling-bullets of pottery, and casts from pieces of 

 timber showing adze marks, found on site of the British 

 village near Glastonbury ; presented by Arthur BuUeid, 

 Esq. 



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