82 accounts, etc., of the british museum. 



Department of British and Medieval Antiquities and 

 Ethnography. 



1. — Arrangement, Cataloguing, d-c. 



Prehistoric Saloon. — A special exhibition of flints from 

 Northfleet, Kent, has been arranged in a desk-case ; the 

 exhibition drawers have been overhauled, and several additions 

 made of flint and bronze implements. 



Rotnano-British Section. — The exhibition drawers in the 

 Central Saloon have been overhauled periodically ; and plinths 

 provided for labelling the pottery exhibited and in storage. 



Anglo-Saxon Room. — Several groups of specimens exhibited 

 on boards have been remounted and relabelled. 



Mediaeval Room. — The permanent labelling of the dials 

 and mathematical instruments has been completed ; a series 

 of colonial seals cleaned, and extra plate-glass protection 

 provided for three table-cases. 



Glass and Ceramic Gallery. — The collection of Italian 

 maiolica has been relabelled, and the exhibition cases in the 

 ante-room dismantled, the specimens being exhibited elsewhere 

 or stored in the King Edward VII. Galleries. 



Gallery of Religions. — Coptic frescoes arid six terra-cotta 

 vessels from Egj^pt have been restored for exhibition ; and 

 three inscriptions from Egypt mounted. The Buddhist section 

 has been re-arranged after the structural alterations, and 63 

 Gandhara sculptures cleaned. 



Asiatic Saloon. — Two sections have been re-ai-ranged to 

 accommodate recent acquisitions, and the labelling of three 

 standard cases of porcelain revised. Eight wall-cases were 

 cleared for repairs to the glass, and the English porcelain 

 removed temporarily into wall-cases. Three large Chinese 

 box-bricks have been cleaned. 



King Ed^vardVIl. Gallery {Ground floor). — The temporary 

 exhibition of Sir M, A. Stein's Collection from Chinese Turkestan 

 was partly arranged by the Department ; and after the closing of 

 the gallery, the standard cases for the Waddesdon Collection 

 were transferred. The bays and cases in this gallery have been 

 lettered, and a screen erected behind the Lohan pottery-figure. 



Ethnographical Gallery. — Three large standard cases 

 (containing Japanese armour, objects from Torres Straits and 

 N. American dresses) as well as a wall-case, have been cleaned. 

 Three wall-cases in the African section have been arranged, and 

 the African and Polynesian sections labelled. Three stone idols 

 from Tahiti and a series from Wallis Island have been exhibited; 



Anxerican Room. — The re-arrangement and the permanent 

 labelling of the various series of pottery have been continued. 



Registration. — The registration of current acquisitions has 

 been continued, and 3,072 objects have been added, including 



