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transferred into cardboard trays in more convenient cabinets 

 and the series lettered throughout. Progress has been made 

 with the card index of foreign personal medals after 1600, in 

 the course of which the whole series has been expanded and 

 made more accessible. 



The following collections have been examined with a view 

 to purchase or presentation : (a) & dealer's stock of mediaeval 

 Italian coins, (b) several small collections of miscellaneous coins 

 and medals, (e) the bequest of Caroline Lady Ramsay. 



5. Oriental Series : — 



Two thousand four hundred and forty-three coins have been 

 registered and 2,316 incorporated. 



The incorporation of the Van den Bergh gift of 2,556 coins 

 has been completed ; the series of the Pathan Sultans of Delhi 

 has been expanded from one to two cabinets and that of the 

 Moghul Emperors of India from 2^ to 5 cabinets. In both 

 series the coins of each reign have been classified under mints. 

 Additional heading cards have been written and inserted in the 

 series of the Moghuls and of the Shahs of Persia, and the coins 

 of Mysore and of other Native States of India have been 

 studied and rectifications made. The Sassanian series has been 

 examined on behalf of a foreign scholar and casts made and 

 sent of all rare or unpublished coins. Three small collections 

 have been examined and a selection made. 



6. General Arrangement : — 



The summary inventory of the contents and position of the 

 cabinets has been checked. 



II. — Catalogues. 



1. Catalogues of Greek Coins. 



Coins of Palestine (Galilsea, Samaritis, and Judsea), bv 

 G. F. Hill. 

 Sheets A-Ll of the text and slips 1-31 of the Introduction 

 have been passed for press ; further sheets and slips have been 

 sent for revise. An index has been compiled for the introduction 

 and the text as far as paged. 



Coins of Cyrenaica, by E. S. G. Robinson. 



The early coins of the Ptolemies, struck in Rhodes, Cos and 

 the Cycladea, the coins of the early Seleucids and coins of Crete 

 and Syracuse have been carefully examined, in view of their 

 relations to coins of Cyrenaica. In the series of Cyrenaica 

 itself, the silver coinage of the 3rd Century B.C. has been 

 re-arranged, casts of coins not in the collection have been 

 inserted and the succession of a series of magistrates has been 

 determined by the comparison of their dies. 



Coins of Ara.hia., Mesopotamia, etc. 



A special bibliography of coins of this district has been 

 compiled, and 87 coins have been weighed. 



