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ethnographical specimens. Numbers have been painted on 2,830 

 specimens and 758 permanent labels written. 



Photographs to the number of 81 have been prepared in the 

 Department for purposes of illustration and reference, and 34 

 photographic prints and II lantern slides made. Typewritten 

 labels to the number of 538 have been cut and bordered; 39 

 mounting-boards covered with paper and two with velvet, and 

 1,784 objects mounted. There have been prepared 281 trays, 

 tablets, pedestals, labels, frames, plinths and packing-cases, and 

 several exhibition cases re-fitted. Further progress has been 

 made with the classification and storage of photographic 

 negatives and ethnographical documents. 



The departmental offices were transferred to the White 

 Wing in August, and the library re-arranged in newly erected 

 book-cases and cupboards. A slip catalogue of books is in 

 preparation. The ceramic library and stored pottery specimens 

 have been removed to the King Edward VII. galleries. 



Excavations were conducted in travels at Rickmansworth, 

 Herts, on 10 days in the autumn, and the Swansea meeting of 

 the Museums Association was attended in July. A large 

 collection of flints from Northfleet was classified and removed 

 from Gravesend to the Museum, where type series were 

 selected and despatched to 22 provincial museums, with 

 portions of the Stone Age collection bequeathed by Mr. Richard 

 Jones, of Welling. The inventory of ancient and foreign 

 specimens in the Tower Armoury has been checked, and those 

 sections removed to the Museum, where a selection has been 

 made. 



Fuhlications. — Current additions have been made to the slip 

 catalogue of Oriental pottery and porcelain, and the Catalogue 

 of Renaissance and later gems completed. Further illustrations 

 have been prepared for the Romano-British and Anglo-Saxon 

 guides ; and the photographs and text provided for series of 

 pictorial postcards representing objects in the Department. A 

 report of the excavations conducted in conjunction with H.M. 

 Geological Survey in 1912 has been prepared and published in 

 Archceologia, vol. LXV. 



Students. — Two thousand eight hundred and seventy-three 

 students and visitors have been received in the Department, 

 and a demonstration given in the Prehistoric Room by a member 

 of the staff. 



2. Acquisitions, 

 (1.) Prehistoric and Early British Antiquities : — 



(a) Stone Age. — A large series of palaeolithic implements 

 and worked flakes chiefly from gravel-pits at Kennet and Kent- 

 ford, near Newmarket, and from the surface at Tuddenham, 

 near Mil den hall, Suffolk. Presented by G. R. Jennings, Esq. 



Seven palfeoliths from gravel near Grove Park Station 

 Mottingham, Kent. Presented by Hamj Mulder, Esq. 

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