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impressions have been classified ; and labels prepared and 

 affixed to several of the portraits on the walls. 



Gold Ornament Room. — The majority of the exhibited 

 specimens of mediseval and Anglo-Saxon jewellery have been 

 re-labelled ; a large number of rings have been re-mounted, 

 and some arranged. Outside the room structural alterations 

 have been made, and the whole passage thrown open, the 

 added portion being fitted with desk-cases for the exhibition 

 of the Franks Bequest. 



Glass and Ceramic Room. — The collection of quattro- 

 cento majolica has been labelled and arranged in a separate 

 standard case in the middle of the room, and a corresponding 

 case has been filled with specimens of Mediterranean ware. 



Asiatic Saloon. — The old wall cases in the south wing 

 have been cleared and removed ; cases of improved type have 

 been erected, and the fittings for one half of the new cases 

 completed, while a portion of the contents has been replaced. 

 The wall-cases in the north wing of the Saloon have been 

 cleared, and new cases are in course of construction. 



Gallery of Religions. — Four stands have been covered 

 with velvet for the exhibition of Early Christian silver finds 

 and other antiquities ; and the collection of rings has been 

 similarly mounted in a table case. Progress has been made 

 with a slip catalogue of the collection, and numerous labels 

 have been written for the same. 



Ethnographical Gallery. — The Chinese and Japanese 

 armour has been removed to a standard case, received from 

 the Egyptian Department and altered to suit the collection. 

 This has admitted of a re-arrangement of the oriental 

 armour and the Javanese collections. The following sections 

 have been transferred and re-arranged : — Borneo, Asiatic 

 Islands, Australia, New Guinea, and Madagascar ; while the 

 collections from the following localities have undergone a 

 fresh arrangement : — The Pacific, including Hervey Group, 

 Tonga and Samoa, Fiji, New Hebrides, Admiralty Islands, 

 New Britain, New Caledonia, Solomon Islands, New Zealand 

 and Micronesia, Tibet, the Nicobar Islands, India and Ceylon, 

 South America, the North-west coast, North American 

 Indian, North Africa, and Abyssinia. A life-sized figure of 

 an Angami Naga man has been added to the Indian Collection ; 

 and similar figures of a South Australian man and North 

 Australian woman and child have been placed in their 

 respective sections. The collection of bronzes from Benin 

 City has been catalogued by means of permanent photographs, 

 and the other specimens from the same place exhibited. Two 

 more table-cases have been lined with velvet for the exhibi- 

 tion of oriental arms and other objects ; and the rest of the 

 table-cases in the Gallery lined with green paper. A stand^ird 

 case has been refitted and placed in position, containing a 



