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Society's collection has been labelled, and 235 specimens of 

 small size have been mounted on boards or in frames, besides 

 a frame of Guiana ornaments, and a series from Cambodia. 



Second Northern Gallery. — Progress has been made with 

 the fittings of the easternmost room, to be devoted to early 

 Christian antiquities. 



Glass and Ceramic Gallery. — Two new table-cases have 

 been received, lined to match the others, and the consequent 

 extension and re-arrangement of the glass series have been 

 completed. The contents of one of the large central cases 

 have been removed, cleaned, and replaced. Two additional 

 shelves have been made and placed in the wall-cases of the 

 antique series. 



A number of card labels have been written for the glass ; 

 all the recent additions to the German stoneware have been 

 labelled, as have also the additional pieces of English pottery. 

 The series of interesting fragments of early wares from 

 Rhages in Persia, and Fostat, Egypt, have been arranged in 

 a table-case and labelled. 



The registration has been continued, and 2,445 objects have 

 been registered, completing the register of antiquities up to 

 the end of the year; while 512 objects acquired between the 

 years 1837 and 1845 have been registered in the modern style. 



Three hundred and ten ethnographical specimens have been 

 described for the permanent Slip Catalogue, with a drawing 

 of each object. 



Two hundred and sixty-nine card labels with duplicates, 

 and 491 headings, have been printed with the hand-press in 

 the department ; 14 mounting boards have had descriptive 

 labels written upon them ; six general labels have been 

 painted ; 81 mounting boards and tablets have been covered 

 with paper, and 413 antiquities have been mounted, as 

 well as a number of Japanese antiquities. 



Thirty-one matrices of seals have been catalogued on 

 slips ; 138 gold ornaments have been catalogued in the same 

 manner; and 136 enamels have been catalogued for publication. 



The framing of the series of Egyptian race casts has been 

 completed. 



A number of Anglo-Saxon antiquities of iron from Suffolk 

 and elsewhere have been boiled in wax to arrest decay, as 

 have also certain objects of the same kind from Norway. A 

 Late Celtic bucket with bronze bands has been mounted and 

 the wood restored, and 290 type casts of seals have been 

 remounted. 



II. — Acquisitions. 



(1.) Early British and Prehistoric Antiquities:— 



A gold tore, weighing llf oz., found at Castlemount, Dover, 

 in 1878 ; presented by Robert Chignell, Esq. 



A flint 



