DEPARTMENT OF COINS AND MEDALS.. G9 



A number of Zuni fetishes and boomerangs, and baskets and 

 throwing sticks from various parts of America ; obtained by 

 exchange with the Smithsonian Institution. 



The most important addition to the Christy Collection has 

 been the acquisition of a large and interesting series of objects 

 collected by Mr. George Goodman Hewett, one of the surgeons 

 who accompanied Vancouver in his well-known voyage, 

 1790-95. The specimens are principally from the Sandwich 

 Islands and the North Pacific coasts of America ; among the 

 former are a feather god, feather helmets and ornaments ; and 

 the American section includes many specimens from the coast 

 of California. The collection is, of course, of great additional 

 value from its having been made a century ago, many of the 

 objects being now obsolete ; presented by A. W. Franks, Esq. 



The Trustees of the Christy Collection have purchased, 

 from funds at their disposal, a collection formed by Mr. 

 Jockin in the Kei Islands, and a selection fronr the general 

 ethnographical collection formed by the late Mr. Noldwritt. 



Augustus W. Franks. 



Department of Coins and Medals. 

 I. — Registration and Arrangeinent. 

 1. Greek Series : — 



218 coins, recently acquired, of various parts of the Greek 

 world, have been registered and incorporated. 



28 Greek coins from the Cunningham Collection have been 

 registered and incorporated. 



432 tickets giving references to the Catalogue of the Coins 

 of Peloponnesus have been written and placed in the trays 

 beneath the specimens. 



9 coins, hitherto classed as " Uncertain," have been identified. 



The duplicate coins have been withdrawn from the Cretan 

 series and placed in one of the cabinets containing Greek 

 Duplicates. 



71 electrotypes of rare Greek coins, not in the British 

 Museum, have been made and inserted in their places in the 

 Collection of Electrotypes. 



The four cabinets containing the coins of Lydia and 

 Phrygia have been moved from their old position after Cilicia 

 and placed after Caria, in conformity with the order in Head's 

 Historia Numorun, with the object of keeping together all 

 the coins of the Roman Province of Asia. 



The coins of Ilium in the Troad, and those of Alinda, 

 Antioch ad Mseandrum, and Aphrodisias (autonomous), in 

 Caria, have been re-arranged in chronological order, in pre 

 ration for the Catalogues of Troas and Caria : the specimens 

 in silver have been weighed. Rectifications have been made in 



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