78 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM. 



printed on the hand-press ; 149 boards papered, and 2,009 

 objects mounted. There have been prepared 366 trays, plinths, 

 stands, tablets, frames, and cases of various kinds, mainly for 

 the exhibition galleries. 



Six prehistoric urns and one Roman amphora have been 

 restored, one table-case lined with cloth, the Easter Island 

 sculptures and the busts in the Hall cleaned, as well as the 

 Thruxton mosaic pavement on the north-east staircase, where a 

 scaffold has been erected for fixing the Hemsworth pavement, 

 which has been restored. The Ethnographical casts from 

 Egypt have been fixed in another position. A North American 

 Indian bowl and carvings, an Eskimo canoe and fly-whisk have 

 been repaired, and wooden models made of early British iron- 

 work from Welwyn, and blocks of Peruvian masonry. 



Antiquities have been examined at Chingford, Westminster, 

 and at the offices of the Metropolitan Water Board ; and 

 collections packed at Stowmarket and Welwyn and brought to 

 the Museum. 



Publications. — A second edition of the Stone Age Guide 

 was published in February ; and the bulk of the Catalogue of 

 Mediaeval Finger-rings is in print. The slip-catalogue of 

 Oriental wares has been kept up to date, and a series of stone 

 implements collected by Dr. Stein in Chinese Turkestan has 

 been described and illustrated. 



Students. — Three thousand two hundred and sixty students 

 and visitors have been received in the Department. Three 

 parties have been conducted through the Stone Age and Ethno- 

 graphical Galleries by members of the staff, and the Brighton 

 meeting of the Museums Association was attended. 



II. — Acquisitions. 

 (1.) Prehistoric and Early British Antiquities : — 



{&.) Stone Age. — Flint implements of eolithic and palaeo- 

 lithic types from the summit of Hackpen Hill, Wilts. Presented 

 by Rev. H. G. 0. Kendall. 



Seventy palaeolithic implements from Kennet pit, near 

 Newmarket, and neolithic flints from north-west Suffolk. 

 Presented by C. R. Jennings, Esq. 



Polished celt from Dorset and one partly polished from the 

 Lea, opposite Temple Mills. Presented by Dr. C. H. Read, 

 P.S.A. 



Polished celt from Firle Beacon, Sussex, Presented by 

 Mr. Moore. 



Bone adze-heads, various stone tools and worked flakes, 

 from the site of ancient lake-dwellings at Ulrome, E.R. Yorks, 

 discovered in 1880-1 and described in Archceologia, Ixii. 593. 

 Excavated and presented hy Thos. Boynton, Esq., F.S.A. 



