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Ninety-two amulets, figures of difterent kinds, objects in 

 porcelain, &;c. have been mounted on wooden stands and 

 tablets. 



Eighty labels have been drafted and painted on plinths, 

 frames, &c., and registration and collection numbers have been 

 painted on 2,800 objects. 



Three hundred and forty objects of the old collections have 

 been identified with the registers, and broken and missing 

 numbers have been restored. 



Twelve hundred and ninety miscellaneous objects have 

 been registered or re-registered, and the slip inventory of 

 exhibited objects has been continued. 



One hundred and twenty-five ushoMiu figures have been 

 catalogued. 



Drawings of the sculptured portions of about 80 stelse 

 have been made, and the hieroglyphic and hieratic texts have 

 been copied on about 60 of them. 



Works in Progress. 



1. Coptic ilf/S>S.— Oriental No. 6804, Oriental No. 6782, and 

 Oriental 7024 have been copied, and the copies sent to the 

 printer. Twenty sheets are in type, and 14 sheets have been 

 read in proof. 



2. Catalogue of Scarabs. — Catalogue slips have been written 

 (for the Appendix) for the scarabs acquired recently, and 20 

 sheets have been read in proof and revise and passed for press. 



3. Egyptian Texts. — Fsirt IV. is being prepared for publi- 

 cation. 



Assyrian Antiquities : — 



The general re-arrangement of the unexhibited section of 

 the Babylonian and Assyrian Collections has been continued, 

 and the washing and cleaning of the bas-reliefs have been 

 continued. The replacing of the glass in the Galleries has 

 been completed. 



The verification of collections arranged temporarily in the 

 Basement has been completed, the contents of the boxes have 

 been checked, and worn or broken numbers have been re- 

 stored. As large numbers of the tablets of the Kuyunjik 

 Collection are in constant use by students, the checking of the 

 numbers and the examination of the fragments for rejoins 

 goes on continually. Five thousand three hundred slips have 

 been written to record the rejoining of fragments. 



Three hundred and twelve tablets have been cleaned ; 31 

 tablets have been repaired ; 118 tablets have been repaired and 

 rejoined; several "case-tablets" have been opened; 500 

 tablets have been placed in wool-lined boxes ; 6,122 fragments 

 of tablets have been brushed and examined ; 35 cylinder seals 

 and miscellaneous stamps have been made. 



