BRITISH AND MEDIiEVAL ANTIQUITIES. 65 



Department of British and Medieval Antiquities and 

 Ethnography. 



I. — A rrangement. 



Prehistoric Saloon. — The wall cases containing the re- 

 mains from the drift gravels of England and France have 

 been taken down and reconstructed in a form better suited 

 to the display of these collections. The specimens have been 

 re-arranged and labelled. A map of the river basins of 

 England has been framed and exhibited, with indications of 

 the sites of the principal discoveries of cave dwellings and 

 drift remains. 



Anglo-Roman Room. — The whole of the wall cases and 

 the objects displayed in them have been cleaned, the cases 

 having been distempered, and a number of labels written for 

 the objects. Four sections of table cases have been lined 

 with velvet, and the contents re-arranged or re-mounted. 

 The contents of the drawers have been examined and a new 

 list of the contents made. The statuette of Atys has been 

 cleaned and re-labelled. The pedestal of the bust of Hadrian, 

 and those of the other objects of the same group, have been 

 replaced by. plinths of white marble and the whole cleaned 

 and re-labelled. 



Mediceval Room. — The articles of ancient and more modern 

 jewellery, including the finger rings from the Franks 

 Bequest, have been withdrawn until space can be found for 

 their proper exhibition. The cases in which they were tem- 

 porarily shown have been filled with seals and other objects 

 belonging to the room, and new labels have been prepared 

 for many of these, as well as for many other specimens in 

 this room. Ten ebonised stands have been made for astro- 

 labes, as well as thirty-six pedestals. 



Anglo-Saxon Room. — The whole of the wall cases and the 

 objects displayed in them have been cleaned ; and, the cases 

 having been distempered, the collection has been re-arranged 

 and a number of new labels written for the objects. Two 

 sections of table cases have been lined with velvet, the 

 specimens re-arranged in them and many labels Avritten. 



Asiatic Saloon. — The whole of the collection of Chinese 

 and Japanese porcelain has been cleaned. The ancient 

 Japanese pottery from dolmens has been removed into the 

 jiew wall cases and re-arranged. 



Gallery of Religions. — The wall cases and their contents 

 have been cleaned ; two stone specimens have been mounted 

 on plinths, and a number of accessions, chiefly from Ceylon, 

 have been incorporated. 



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