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ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM. 



3. Catalogue of English Coins. 



Coins of the JS^orman Kings, by G. C, Brooke. 



The sixty-two plates have been passed for press and worked 

 off, and references to the plates have been inserted in the text 

 of the catalogue. Drawings for founts and devices and for the 

 epigraph ical tables have been sent to press, the founts and 

 devices have been made and the epigraphical table printed. The 

 manuscript of the catalogue has been revised and the numbers 

 of coins inserted and the bibliographical notes completed ; 

 the text to the end of the reign of Henry 1. has been sent 

 to the printers. Signatures A to M (pages 1-17C) have been 

 passed for press and N for revise. A special study has been 

 made of the baronial and irregular issues of the reign of 

 Stephen. The manuscript of the greater part of the Introduc- 

 tion has been written and revised. 



4. Catalogues of Indian Coins. 



Coins of the Gupta Dynasties, by J. Allan. 



The indexes have been prepared, signatures U-Aa have 

 been printed. The introduction has been completed and 

 printed (signatures a-s), and the whole work published. 



Ancient Hindu Coins, by J. Allan. 



The series and its bibliography have been studied and the 

 descriptions of 89 coins have been written. 



5. Medals. 



Select Italian Medals, by G. F. Hill. 



The 50 plates have been mounted and sent to the printers, 

 and 31 have been sent for revise. 



III. — Acquisitions. 



The total number of coins and medals added to the 

 Department during the year 1914 was 3,090, of which 61 were 

 of gold, 2,170 of silver, 701 of bronze, and 158 of other metals. 



The following table shows the niiu)bers of the new acqui- 

 sitions, classified according to the several series .to which they 

 belong: : — 



Class. 



Gold. 



Silver. 



Bronze. 



Other 

 Metals. 



Total. 



Greek .... 



Roman .... 



British and Colonial 



Mediseval and Modern 



Oriental 



Chinese . . . - 



21 

 4 



10 

 « 



20 



19.3 



3-1 



745 



1,175 



22 



1 



4G4 



64 



129 



42 



1 



1 



49 



3 



92 



10 



4 



727 



105 



976 



1,233 



47 



2 



Total 



61 



2,170 



701 



158 



3,090 



Of the above, 1,914 have been presented, viz., 6 of gold, 

 1,295 of silver, 527 of bronze, and 86 of other metals. 



