EGYPTIAN AND ASSYRIAN ANTIQUITIES. 49 



Catalogues of the exhibitions of the Society of Painters in 

 Water Colours, from 1805 to 1836. 



A set of twenty rare pamphlets on art subjects, twelve of 

 them relating to the management and exhibitions of the 

 Royal Academy. 



Sidney Colvin. 



The number of students and visitors attending the Print 

 Room during the year ending 31 December 1890 was 5,220. 



Department of Egyptian and Assyrian Antiquities. 



I. — Arrangement, Cataloguing, &c. 



Egyptian Division : — 



The general re-arrangement of the Egyptian Collection has 

 been proceeded with. 



Fifty objects have been mounted on plinths, and two plinths 

 have been cleaned. Fifty-one wooden stands and pedestals 

 have been made. Blocks have been fitted in cases and covered 

 with velvet, and shelves and other fittings have been pre- 

 pared. The bottoms of two cases have been covered with red 

 cloth. A papyrus-stand has been re-fixed, and new cupboards 

 have been made underneath it. 



Thirty-four objects have been repaired. Four hundred and 

 twenty-nine labels for Egyptian objects have been printed, 

 painted, or written. Two hundred and sixty-seven numbers 

 have been printed and attached to objects. Three papyri have 

 been unrolled. An index to the Egyptian registers has been 

 prepared. One thousand and fifty Egyptian objects have been 

 registered. 



The Egyptian portion of the General Guide to the collection 

 has been re-written. 



Assyrian Division : — 



The general re-arrangement of the collections of Babylo- 

 nian and Assyrian Antiquities have been proceeded with, and 

 the portion of the General Guide referring to them has been 

 re-written. Five tablets have been mounted on alabaster 

 plinths, a bronze door-step from Babylonia has been mounted 

 on a plinth, eighteen stands have been made, and mahogany 

 pedestals have been prepared for the clay cylinders. 



Fifty-eight tablets have been joined, twenty-five case- 

 tablets opened and repaired, eighty-five tablets and seven 

 other objects repaired, and seventy tablets cleaned. Thir- 

 teen thousand and eighty-eight tablets and twenty-one other 

 objects have been registered. One hundred and seventy- 

 three labels have been written or painted. Five hundred 



0.81. D and 



