70 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM. 



Islands, and Fiji spears ; presented by J. Edge Partington, 

 Esq. 



A charm in its bag from S.E. New Guinea, and a lime 

 spatula ; presented by H. 0. Forbes, Esq., F.z.s. 



5. Antiquities and Ethnography of America : — 

 Gold ornaments and mask from the Republic of Columbia ; 

 an ancient Mexican stone mask from Santa Fe, Chiapas ; a 

 collection of ancient Peruvian textiles from graves at Ciclayo, 

 Arica, and Ancon ; stone implements from Central America 

 and the West Indies ; presented by A. W. Franks, Esq. 



Bow and Arrows from Guatemala and the Rio Doce, Brazil ; 

 presented by Cuthbert E. Peek, Esq., f.s.a. 



The Trustees of the Christy Collection have purchased, 

 from funds at their disposal, a collection from the Torbryan 

 Caves, Devonshire, collections from the Congo, Madagascar, 

 the Maldive Islands, and a series of musical instruments from 

 Queen Charlotte's Islands. 



Augustus W. Franks. 



Department of Coins and Medals. 



I. — Registration and Arrangement. 

 1. Greek Series : — 



313 coins, recently acquired, of various parts of the Greek 

 world, have been registered and incorporated. 



194 Parthian coins have been registered. 



The work of writing and placing beneath the coins tickets 

 giving references to the published Catalogues of Greek Coins 

 in the Museum has been continued, as follows : — " Crete and 

 -^gean Islands," 235 tickets ; " Peloponnesus," 231 tickets ; 

 *' Corinth," 1,073 tickets ; "Alexandria," 404 tickets. 



7 coins, hitherto classed as " Uncertain," have been identified. 



Electrotype copies of ] 14 rare coins not in the British 

 Museum collection have been made. 



Rectifications have been made in the series of the coins of 

 Nysa in Lydia, Ariassus in Pisidia, and Antioch in Syria. 



In preparation for the Catalogue of Troas, &c., the coins of 

 the following towns have been re-arranged in chronological 

 order, and the specimens in silver have been weighed : — 

 Alexandria Troas, Antandrus, Assus, Birytis, Cebrene, Colone, 

 Gargara, Gentinus, Gergis, Hamaxitus, Lamponia, Neandria, 

 Ophrynium, Pionia, Scamandria, Scepsis, Sigeium, Thymbra. 



In preparation for the Catalogue of Caria, the coins of the 

 following towns have been re-arranged in chronological order, 

 and the specimens in silver have been weighed : — Alabanda, 



Alinda, 



