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7. Sard scarab. Heracles in contest with Nereus. 



8. Chalcedony scaraboid of the finest style. Girl seated on 

 rock, writing on tablets. Achcea. 



Miscellaneous. 

 VII. — 1. Eight iron javelin-heads. Licenza, Italy. 



2. Three iron spear-heads. Talamone, Maremma di Tos- 

 cana. 



3. Stone die with twenty sides, inscribed with letters of the 

 Greek alphabet. 



4. Four ivory theatre tickets, inscribed (1) TEIMAC ; (2) 

 AYKAPI-(uN ; (3) KAPOYC ; (4) A. Italy and Alexandria. 



5. Clay stopper and cylindrical stone vase. Egyiot. 



0. Lead Etruscan weight, and ivory plaque with relief of 

 dog. Chiusi. 



A. S. Murray. 



Department of British and Mediaeval Antiquities and 

 Ethnography. 



I. — Arrangement. 



Anglo-Saxon Room. — Fittings have been made for three of 

 the additional wall-cases, and in them have been arranged the 

 contents of the Saxon tumulus at Taplow, the ancient Irish 

 and later ecclesiastical bells, and certain of the more recent 

 acquisitions. 



Medioival Room. — The sections of clocks and caskets have 

 been re-arranged, and brackets have been made for various 

 specimens of metal-work. 



Ethnographical Gallery. — Additional wall-cases have been 

 erected over those in the Asiatic Section ; they have been 

 painted, a wire trellis has been fixed along the backs, and a 

 collection from the Kei Islands, and the larger objects from 

 the Andaman and Nicobar Islands, have been placed in them. 

 The central case for Japanese carvings has been fitted with 

 glass shelves and brass racks, and the objects have been 

 arranged in it and provided with class labels. An elaborate 

 Japanese saddle and its fittings have been mounted on a 

 stand and exhibited in a central case with other Japanese 

 objects. The sections of New Zealand, Paraguay, Patagonia, 

 and Tierra del Fuego, have been cleaned ; those of Peru, 

 Brazil, and Guiana, have been re-arranged ; and the whole 

 of the objects placed outside on the tops of the cases have 

 been twice dusted during the year. The London Missionary 



0.108. Society's 



