BRITISH AND MEDIAEVAL ANTIQUITIES. 61 



Department of British and Mediaeval Antiquities and 

 Ethnography. 



I. — Arrangement. 



Glass and Ceramic Gallery. — Two new table-cases have 

 been received, lined to match the others, and the necessary 

 re-arrangement and extension of the collection have been 

 completed, while recent additions have been incorporated. 



Asiatic Saloon. — Considerable alterations have been made 

 in this room. The whole of the religious figures and other 

 objects connected with religions have been removed into the 

 Second Northern Gallery. The Japanese and Corean pottery 

 has been considerably extended and now occupies some of 

 the space thus obtained, while other portions have been 

 devoted to Indian, Persian, and Chinese objects. The ar- 

 rangement of the rest of the room is still in progress. 



Ethnographical Gallery. — In this gallery the following 

 sections have been examined and cleaned, and, where neces- 

 sary, re-arranged, viz. : — Assam, Central Asia, Ainos, Oriental 

 arms, Esquimaux, West Africa, Torres Straits, Fiji Islands, 

 New Caledonia, New Hebrides, New Ireland, New Britain, 

 New Guinea, Admiralty Islands, Australia, East Africa, 

 Hervey group, and Austral group. 



The specimens on the tops of the wall-cases have been 

 twice cleaned. 



Five hundred and sixty-three labels, with duplicates, 

 have been printed with the hand-press in the Department, 

 nearly the whole of which have been for this gallery. 



Second Northern Gallery. — The arrangements of the three 

 rooms in this gallery assigned to the department are at last 

 approaching completion ; they contain collections to illustrate 

 various religions, chiefly Oriental. The varied character of the 

 objects comprised in the several series, and the necessity of 

 adapting them to the limited dimensions of the cases in the 

 gallery, has rendered the task of arrangement a long and tedious 

 one. The largest of the three rooms, that devoted to Buddhism 

 in ancient and mediseval India, Ceylon, Burmah, China and 

 Japan, is practically completed, and there now remains only 

 the incorporation of a number of objects recently acquired. 

 The other two rooms, containing Brahmanism and other 

 Eastern religions, and the small series of Early Christian 

 objects, are in an advanced state, and it is hoped that they 

 may be shortly completed. 



The registration has been continued, and 1,970 objects have 

 been registered. 



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