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from New Guinea has been arranged as a separate series in a 

 central case. The tops of the wall-eases and the specimens 

 upon them have been twice cleaned, and two trophies have 

 been cleaned and mounted afresh. Temporary fittings have 

 been made for Japanese ivory carvings, and fourteen stands 

 have been made for feather ornaments from Guiana. 



ATnerican Room. The arrangements of this room have 

 been completed as far as the present accommodation will 

 admit. All the archseological remains from the American 

 continent have now been removed into this room and 

 arranged geographically ; a temporary arrangement has been 

 made of the Peruvian remains other than pottery, which are 

 destined to occupy some cases yet to be erected. 



The locks of the wall-cases have been altered to the new 

 suite, and the cases numbered consecutively. 



The Arabic inscriptions in the department have been 

 examined and partly deciphered ; the identification of the 

 early acquisitions of Indian sculpture has been begun, and 

 the Egyptian race casts have been arranged for framing, and 

 a sample frame has been made. 



The registration has been continued, and 1,778 objects have 

 been registered. 



One hundred and seventy-nine ethnographical specimens 

 have been described for the permanent Slip Catalogue, with 

 a drawing of each object. 



Six hundred and three card labels with duplicates, and 232 

 headings, have been printed with the hand-press in the depart- 

 ment. Seventy-one mounting boards have been papered, and 

 454 antiquities mounted. 



Six hundred and eight enamels have been catalogued, as 

 well as 777 matrices of seals. 



Forty matrices of seals have been mounted on tablets with 

 impressions at their sides. 



II. — Acquisitions. 

 (1.) Early British and Prehistoric Antiquities : — 



A palaeolithic flint implement from Hackney, and five flint 

 arrowheads from Redhill, Surrey, presented by the Rev. 

 William Baker. 



An urn and other objects excavated by the late T. W. U. 

 Robinson, Esq., f.s.a., and Canon Greenwell, in a barrow at 

 Copt Hill, near Houghton-le-Spring, county Durham, pre- 

 sented by Mrs. T. W. U. Robinson. A drinking cup and 

 lignite beads, from a barrow near Brighton, presented by A. 

 W. Franks, Esq. 



Flint knives of peculiar form, found near Cullybackey, 

 county Antrim, presented by the Rev. G. R. Buick. Minute 

 flint implements found by the donor on a neolithic floor near 

 Rochdale, Lancashire, presented by H. Colley March, 

 Esq., M.D. 



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