74 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM. 



III. — Christy Collection. 



Four hundred and ninety-nine additional slips haA^e been 

 prepared for the Registration Catalogue, with careful sketches 

 of the objects. 



The following donations have been received by the Christy 

 Trustees, and by them transferred to the Trustees of the 

 British Museum : — 



1. Prehistoric Antiquities of Europe, Asia, and 



Africa : — 



Three drift implements from San Isidro, Madrid ; presented 

 by Sir John Evans, k.c.b. 



A flint arrowhead with parallel flaking, found at Bridling- 

 ton ; presented by Thomas Boynton, Esq., F.s.A. 



An important series of objects of stone, horn, etc., from the 

 Swiss Lakes, chiefly from the collection of Dr. V. Gross ; three 

 stone implements from Finland, and a flint arrowhead in an 

 antique mount of silver from Tuscany ; all presented by Sir 

 A. W. Franks. 



Two stone arrowheads from Persia ; presented by Sidney 

 Churchill, Esq. 



A number of minute implements of chert and chalcedony 

 from the Vindhya Hills, India (Carlyle Collection) ; presented 

 by Sir A. W. Franks. A series of drift-like implements 

 from the Singrauli Basin, S. Mirzapur ; presented by John 

 Cockburn, Esq. 



2. Ethnography of Africa : — 



Weapons from the Masai, specimens from the Kilimanjaro 

 district, and a head-dress from the Congo ; presented by Sir 

 A. W. Franks. 



3. Ethnography of Asia : — 



A curiously-carved whistle for decoying quails, and two 

 brass tobacco pipes with instruments, from Persia ; presented 

 by J. Romilly Allen, Esq., f.s.a. Scot. 



A number of objects from Tibet ; a series from Siam ; a 

 bronze gong from Burmah, and three Indian daggers ; 

 presented by Sir A. W. Franks. 



Iron poisoned arrows from the Akas of Assam ; presented 

 by Surgeon-Major L. A. Waddell. 



A pottery bell, colours used for caste marks and other 

 objects from Mirzapur; presented by Henry Balfour, Esq. 



A box of gutta-percha from Borneo ; presented by C. A. 

 Bampfylde, Esq. A stone gouge from Perak ; presented by 

 Sir Hugh Low, g.C.m.g. A knife from the Battaks of 

 Sumatra ; presented by Geoflrey Ransome, Esq. 



