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Set of ivory armlets worn by women in the interior of 

 Borneo ; presented by Lady Brooke, Ranee of Sarawak. 



Kite of palm leaves from Santa Maiia, Banks' Islands; 

 presented by the Rev. J. Palmer. The case of the chronometer 

 on board the " Bounty," when seized by the mutineers ; given 

 to the late Mr. Carleton by the Norfolk Islanders, and pre- 

 sented by Miss Carleton. 



Ancient bronze implement from Peru, presented by John 

 Evans, Esq., D.c.L. A modern Mexican plate of lustred ware, 

 presented by E. C. Moore, Esq. 



A large and important collection from the North West and 

 Arctic America, collected by the donor during his expedition in 

 those regions ; presented by the Earl of Lonsdale. 



III. — Christy Collection. 



Four hundred and fifty-nine additional slips have been 

 prepared for the Registration Catalogue, with careful sketches 

 of the objects. 



The following donations have been received by the Christy 

 Trustees, and by them transferred to the Trustees of the 

 British Museum : — 



1. Prehistoric Antiquities of Europe, Asia, and 

 Africa : — 



Palaeolithic implements from the Drift in Suffolk, an axe- 

 hammer from Stanton Moor, a neolithic grinding-stone from 

 Eastbourne, a pierced hammer and a polished flint axe from 

 the Thames ; presented by A. W. Franks, Esq. 



An interesting series of celts, arrowheads, and flakes of 

 neolithic period, and a number of plaster casts of implements 

 of rare type, from Portugal ; presented by Major J. F. Nery 

 Delgado, of Lisbon. 



Three stone axes from Auvergne and one from Carcassonne, 

 France, and two serrated flint spear-heads from Zealand, 

 Denmark ; presented by A. W. Franks, Esq. 



A stone celt from Skipsia in the Troad ; presented by the 

 Rev. Greville J. Chester. 



A number of stone and obsidian implements, specimens of 

 pottery, and other remains from kitchen-middens in Japan 

 and Yezo; presented by John Anderson, Esq., M.D. 



Seven stone implements from South Africa ; presented by 

 J. P. Rothwell, Esq. 



An unusually fine flint dagger and two arrowheads of the 

 XVIIIth dynasty, from Tell el Amarna, and six stone imple- 

 ments of the Xllth or Xlllth dynasty, from Kahun, pre- 

 sented by A. W. Franks, Esq. 



Two granite pivot-stones from Kahun, and flint imple- 

 ments from Birket el Kurun and Kahun, presented by W. 

 M. Flinders Petrie, Esq. A series of flint implements from 

 Jebel Sheikh Embarak, Upper Egypt ; presented by the 



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