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TI. — Ethnography of Asia : — 



Donation. 

 Four short lengths of twisted bamboo cable from China ; 

 Cecil Hanbury, Esq. 



Ill, — Ethnography of Africa. 



Donation. 

 A series- of weapons and other objects from the Masai, 

 Wa-Kikuyu, and other tribes of British East Africa ; D. 0. 

 Macpherson, Esq. 



Purchase. 

 A large and important collection of weapons and personal 

 ornaments from the Mangbettu, Azandeh, and other tribes 

 inhabiting the Welle District in the north-east corner of the 

 Congo Free State. 



IV. — Ethnography of Oceania and Australia : — ^ 

 Donations. 



A paddle from New Ireland ; G. A. Amor, Esq. Game of 

 cup and ball from Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands ; series from 

 the Pacific and Australia ; J. Edge-Partington, Esq. 



Personal ornaments, &c. from the natives of the West 

 Australian Desert ; the Hon. David W. Carnegie. 



A ground stone adze-head from New Zealand ; Spencer G. 

 Perceval, Esq. 



Two ornamental panels from the wall of a Maori house, New 

 Zealand ; A. Hamilton, Esq., Kegistrar of the University of 

 Otago, Dunedin. 



Exchange. 



With the Canterbury Museum, Christ Church, New Zea- 

 land ; a figure-head from a Maori fishing-canoe. 



With the Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum, Honolulu ; an 

 ethnographical series principally from the Hawaiian Islands. 



With J. Edge-Partington, Esq. ; spears and other objects 

 from Melanesia. 



V. Antiquities and Ethnography of America : — 

 Purchase. 



A curious skull of rock-crystal, approximately of natural 

 size, and two masks of ground obsidian, from Ancient Mexico, 

 Five gold ornaments and a necklace of steatite beads from 

 graves at Veraguas, Panama. 



Charles H. Read. 



