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A number of Dyak objects ; presented by John Whitehead, 

 Esq. A shield from Borneo ; presented by A. W. Franks, Esq. 



4. Ethnography of Oceania and Australasia : — 



A number of specimens from the Caroline and neighbouring 

 groups ; presented by Henry Seebohm, Esq., F.z.s. 



A board for surf-swimming from Hawaii, and a New 

 Zealand bird snare ; presented by A. Fowler, Esq. An ear 

 ornament from the Hervey Islands ; presented by the Rev. W. 

 Wyatt Gill, d.d. Cocoanut discs for game of squails from the 

 Tongan Group ; presented by Captain E. H. Verney. Samples 

 of tapa cloth from Polynesia ; presented by F. E. Whelan, 

 Esq. A collection of stone and bone implements from the 

 Chatham Islands, and numerous specimens from Polynesia ; 

 presented by A. W. Franks, Esq. 



A specimen of tapa cloth from Futuna ; presented by 

 Graham Balfour, Esq. 



An Australian club and a charm from the Solomon Islands ; 

 presented by J. Edge Partington, Esq. Two collections from 

 New Guinea, and one from the Trobriand Islands ; presented 

 by A. W. Franks, Esq. 



5. Antiquities and Ethnography of America : — 



A very remarkable helmet or head-piece of wood, cut from 

 the solid, in the form of two eagles' heads ; the whole of the 

 exterior is, or has been, encrusted with elaborate mosaic of 

 turquoise, shell, etc. This rare specimen was obtained in 

 Paris in 1854, and since then has been in the Bateman 

 collection, at the sale of which it was purchased by the donor, 

 A. W. Franks, Esq. A statuette in gold, and seven others in 

 silver, from the . Bateman collection, and an unusually fine 

 implement of bone in the form of a human hand, set with 

 turquoise, found in Peru; also presented by A. W. Franks, Esq. 



A bone object from the Eskimo; presented by the Rev. 

 W. Sparrow Simpson, d.d. 



A number of specimens from the North- West Coast, the 

 Apache Indians, from Chile, and from the Jivaros Indians of 

 Brazil ; presented by A. W. Franks, Esq. 



The Trustees of the Christy collection have purchased, 

 from funds at their disposal, a number of stone implements of 

 uncertain age, from the plateau of Kent, and a remarkable 

 carved wooden gong and a sacrificial stone, both of ancient 

 Mexican work. 



Augustus W. Franks. 



