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CONTENTS. 



BRITISH MUSEUM. 



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 ACCOUNTS (SPECIAL TRUST FUNDS, 1912-1913) : 



Beidgewater 4 



Faenborough i 



SWINEY 4 



Birch 6 



Vincent Stuckey Lean 6 



Charles Druey Edwaed Fortnum 6 



Carchemish Excavations 6 



NUMBERS OF PERSONS ADMITTED: 



British Museum 8 



British Museum (Natural History) 12 



HOURS OF ADMISSION: 



British Museum ly 



British Museum (Natural History) 13 



GENERAL STATEMENT OF PROGRESS: 



Visitors 14 



Reading Room and Neavspapee Room 14 



Extension Building - 14 



Special Exhibitions 15 



Oriental Prints and Drawings 15 



Official Guide 15 



Sai,e of Postcards 15 



Excavations . . . _ 15 



Peincipal Acquisitions 15 



Grants op Reproductions : 



Prints .... 17 



Medals 17 



Publications 18 



ARRANGEMENT OF COLLECTIONS, &C. : 



Printed Books 20 



Maps ■ - 20 



Music 21 



Newspapers 21 



Manuscripts 27 



Oriental Printed Books and MSS. - 32 



Prints and Drawings 38 



Egyptian Antiquities 54 



Assyrian Antiquities - 55 



Greek and Roman Antiquities 70 



British and Medieval Antiquities ...... 76 



Coins and Medals 86 



ACQUISITIONS : 



Printed Books 23 



Maps 22 



Music 25 



Newspapers - - 23 



Manuscripts - • 28 



Oriental Printed Books and MSS. 33 



Prints and Drawings 39 



Egyptian Antiquities 56 



Assyrian Antiquities 62 



Greek and Roman Antiquities 71 



Prehistoric, Early British and other Antiquities - - - 77 



Ceramic and Glass Objects - 79 



Oexental and Ethnogeaphical Objects (including those 



ADDED to the CHEISTY COLLECTION) 82 



Coins and Medals - - - - - 90 



PHOTOGRAPHING: 



Printed Books 22 



Manuscripts -.--- 28 



Oriental Printed Books and MSS. 33 



Prints and Drawings 39 



British and Medieval Objects - - 76 



