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prints, and 12 lantern slides prepared. Typewritten labels to 

 the number of 463 have been cut and bordered, and 12 

 printed on the hand-press ; 183 mounting boards have been 

 papered, and 1,789 objects mounted. There have been prepared 

 400 trays, tablets, pedestals, labels, frames, plinths and 

 packing-cases, and certain cases refitted. A New Zealand canoe, 

 Egyptian head-rest, gourd, and food-bowl have been repaired. 



Ancient Indian stone sculptures to the number of 109 have 

 been cleaned and wooden plinths provided. A large series of 

 photographic negatives have been classified and stored in cases,, 

 and ethnographical documents examined and filed. 



Excavations were conducted in conjunction with H.M. 

 Geological Survey at Swanscombe, Greenhithe, and Crayford, 

 Kent, on 11 days in the sprin;^, and the Hull meeting of the 

 Museums Association was attended in July. A collection of 

 Frankish and other antiquities on the Rhine was inspected in 

 September. 



Publications. — Current additions have been made to the slip 

 catalogue of Oriental pottery and porcelain, and the catalogue 

 of Renaissance and later gems continued. Guides to the 

 Romano-British and Anglo-Saxon collections have been begun, 

 and a number of illustrations prepared. A slip catalogue has 

 been made of the Hindu collection, and another of the mediaeval 

 Buddhist collection begun. 



Students. — Three thousand eight hundred and twenty-seven 

 students and visitors have been received in the Department, 

 and three demonstrations have been given by members of the 

 staff in the Prehistoric and Ancient American sections. 



2. Acquisitions. 



(1.) Prehistoric and Early British Antiquities : — 



(a) Stone Age. — Three palaeolithic implements from the 

 gravel and an arrow-head said to be from the surface at 

 Kempston, Beds. Presented by J. Darrell Hill, Esq. 



Pa]a3olithic implement from Belbin's pit, Test valley near 

 Romsey, Hants. Presented by W. M. Tapp, Esq., F.S.A. 



Palseolithic implements and flakes from the gravel at 

 Kennet and Kentford, near Newmarket, and surface flints from 

 Tuddenham and other sites in N.W. Suffolk. Presented by 

 C. R. Jennings, Esq. 



Flint implement worked on surface, from Aylesbury, Kent. 

 Presented by B. Harrison, Esq. 



An important series of implements and flakes from working- 

 floors in or below brick-earth at Round Green near Luton, and 

 Gaddesdon Row, Herts. Collected by Worthington G. Smith, 

 Esq. Also an exceptional flat implement from the Thames at 

 Tilbury, and other implements of special interest. 



