60 ACCOtJNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM. 



About 1,850 printed impressions of scarabs have been 

 attached to catalogue slips for the printer. 



The Greenfield papyrus has been unrolled, laid down on 

 paper, and cut into lengths and mounted. 



About 919 miscellaneous objects have been registered or 

 re-registered, and about 724 objects, from which the numbers 

 had disappeared, have been identified, re-numbered, and noted 

 in the Registers. 2,184 slips of Register Numbers have been 

 written. 



The Murch Collection has been carefully examined, and 

 checked with the lists, packed in boxes and despatched to 

 America. 



Works in Progress. 



1. Papyri. — The translation of a Book of Moral Precepts 

 has beten begun, and 35 collotype plates have been printed off". 

 Descriptions of papyri have been written and printed. 



2. Coptic MSS. — The copying of two MSS. has been com- 

 pleted, and the copies collated for publication. 



3. Catalogue of Scarabs. — Catalogue slips for 837 scarabs 

 have been written, and about 3,000 slips have been revised. 

 The printing of the Catalogue has begun, and four sheets are 

 in type. A slip list has been made. 



4. Egyptian Texts.— 56 plates have been prepared and 

 printed off, and the Introduction to Part I. is in type. 35 

 stelae have been copied for Part IT. 



Assyrian Antiquities : — 



The general re-arrangement of the unexhibited section of 

 the Babylonian and Assyrian Collections has been continued, 

 and the cleaning of the bas-reliefs has been continued. 



Several of the large royal Memorial Tablets have been 

 repaired and remounted on granite. 



The cases in the Nimriad Gallery have been cleaned, and 

 their contents repaired where necessary. The cases containing 

 the " Daily Telegraph," Kuyunjik and other Collections, 

 arranged temporarily in the Basement, have been numbered. 

 Sixteen boxes for negatives have been made. 



About 312 tablets have been cleaned and repaired, and a 

 number of " case-tablets " have been opened ; the boxing of the 

 collection has been continued ; casts of 13 seal-cylinders have 

 been made and mounted with their casts on blocks ; 13 fragments 

 of tablets have been rejoined ; 83 engraved gems have been 

 mounted ; and 1,586 registration numbers have been painted on 

 objects. 



About 253 tablets, seal-cylinders, etc., have been registered, 

 and a slip Index to Parts 26-29 of Cuneiform Texts has been 

 prepared. 



