78 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM. 



Oriental Series : — 



The Catalogue of the Additions to the Oriental Collection, 

 1876-1888, Part II., and the Catalogue of Arabic Glass Weights, 

 both by Stanley Lane-Poole, have been published. 



The Catalogue of the Coins of the Moguls of Delhi, by 

 Stanley Lane-Poole, is in the press. 



IV. — Exhibitions. 



The series of electrotypes of Greek Coins, has been re- 

 moved from the North Gallery to a position in the Etruscan 

 Saloon, near the door of the new Medal Room. With this 

 exception, the whole exhibition of coins and medals has been 

 withdrawn for want of space. 



V. — Visitors to the Medal Room and the Gold 

 Ornaraent Room,. 



The number of vi.sitors to the Medal Room during 1891 

 was 1,727. 



The number of visitors to the Gold Ornament Room during 

 1891 was 19,607. 



Reginald Stuart Poole. 



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VIIL— British Museum (Natural History\ 



STATEMENT of Progress made in the Arrangement and 

 Description of the Collections, and Account of 

 Objects added to them, in the Year 1891. 



General. 



Mr. Etheridge. 



Mr. Robert Etheridge, F.R.S., Assistant-Keeper of the De- 

 partment of Geology, has been superannuated under the 

 provisions of the Order in Council of 15th August, 1890, 

 Mr. Etheridge entered the Civil Service of the Crown as 

 Assistant-Naturalist to the Geological Survey of the United 

 Kingdom on the 1st of July, 1857, was appointed Palaeon- 

 tologist to the Survey on the 1st of July, 1863, and was 

 transferred to the office of Assistant-Keeper in the Depart- 

 ment of Geology of the British Museum on the 20th of 

 October, 1881. During his period of service at the Museum, 

 Mr. Etheridge has devoted himself to the arrangement of the 



extensive 



