BRITISH AND MEDIEVAL ANTIQUITIES. 



Department of British and Medieval Antiquities and 

 Ethnography. 



I. — Arrangement, Cataloguing, etc. 



Prehistoric Section. — Eighty-four glazed drawers accessible 

 to the public have been fitted below three table-cases in the 

 Prehistoric Room, and several have been filled with palteolithic 

 and neolithic specimens from England, and series of French 

 and Belgian cave specimens of the later palseolithic period. 

 The labelling of the Greenwell Collection in the Central Saloon 

 has been continued. Two wall-cases have been cleared and 

 painted. 



Romano-British Section. — The collection exhibited in 

 drawers accessible to the public has been periodically over- 

 hauled. 



MedicBval Room. — Minor re-arrangements have been neces- 

 sitated by additions to the series of church-plate and alabaster 

 carvings ; and permanent labels added. 



Gold Ornament Room. — The Franks Collection of finger- 

 rings has been re-arranged in accordance with the Catalogue. 



Asiatic Saloon. — Progress has been made with the perma- 

 nent labelling of the Chinese porcelain ; sections of porcelain 

 have been re-arranged ; and a new table-case filled with Corean 

 pottery and Japanese porcelain. 



Ethnographical Gallery. — The North American Indian 

 dresses have been cleaned and progress made with the labelling 

 and re-arrangement of the North-west Coast Collection. Eskimo 

 specimens have been exhibited in six drawers accessible to the 

 public, and Abyssinian and Sudanese in two wall-cases. The 

 series of East African pottery has been re-arranged, West 

 African ornaments and gold weights exhibited on tablets, and 

 permanent labels added in the African section. The Borneo 

 section and the case of Japanese armour have been cleaned. 



American Room. — Structural alterations have been com- 

 pleted and the exhibits largely re-arranged and labelled, in 

 accordance with the slip-catalogue. The Ecuador stone series, 

 Peruvian pottery and bronzes and the Antilles Collection have 

 been moved, and Peruvian pottery, textiles and mummies 

 exhibited in a new standard case. 



Registration, etc. — The registration of current acquisitions 

 has been continued, and 3,213 objects have been added, 

 including ethnographical specimens. 



Photographs to the number of 33 have been taken in 

 the Department for purposes of illustration and reference, and 

 o4 extra prints prepared. Typewritten labels to the number of 

 323 have been cut and bordered, and 36 labels for drawers 



