64 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM. 



LESSER SUBSCRIBERS. 



£ 



£. 



Charles E. Keyser, 



F.S.A. - - - 105 



The Earl of Derby, K.G. 100 



William Minet, F.S.A. - 100 



Sir Henry Peek, Bart. - 50 



Captain John Peel - 50 



John Edward Taylor - 250 

 The Drapers' Company 200 

 The Clothworkers' Com- 

 pany - - - 105 

 The Mercers' Company 105 

 The Merchant Taylors' 

 Company - - 105 



Grant from Treasury £. 2,000. 



Supplemental Grant £. 830. 



DuRDEN Collection. 



The acquisition next in importance is the collection of 

 antiquities of various periods, but mostly English, formed by 

 the late Mr. Henry Durden, of Blandford, and of which a 

 catalogue has been printed. This has been obtained by pur- 

 chase, but for financial reasons the purchase has been spread 

 over two years. In 1892 about two-thirds of the collection 

 have been acquired, including the Dorsetshire antiquities from 

 barrows, stone and bone implements, a very extensive collec- 

 tion from the British and Roman camp at Hod Hill, some of 

 these being purely British and some Roman in character. 

 This portion numbers in all about 1,800 specimens. The 

 acquisition supplies several wants in the Museum series, such 

 as the West Country urns, which were needed to balance the 

 series from the North of England presented by Canon 

 Greenwell. 



Among the other acquisitions the following may be 

 noticed : — 



(1.) Early British and Prehistoric Antiquities : — 



Three flint scrapers of the rare hollow type, from St. 

 Leonard's Forest, near Horsham, Sussex ; presented by B. C. 

 Boyd, Esq. 



A bronze spear-head and knife, a stone bracer, and a bone 

 object, found in a grave at Sittingbourne, Kent; presented 

 by George Payne, Esq., F.S.A. 



Two " founder's hoards " of bronze, one from Oxfordshire, 

 the other from Shoebury, Essex {see Proc. Soc. Ant. xiv., 174) 

 and a bronze palstave from Lincoln; presented by A. W. 

 Franks, Esq. 



Fragment of a large cake of opaque red glass found in Ire- 

 land, and probably employed for enamelling ; presented by 

 Dr. Valentine Ball, c.B. 



The foreign illustrations include : — 



A- bronze celt and pin from Kosam, India ; presented by 

 Major-General Sir Alexander Cunningham, k.c.i.e. 



(2.) Anglo- 



