DEPARTMENT OF COINS AND MEDALS. 81 



The English, Italian, and French medals, and the British 

 and Colonial Coins, have been withdrawn from the exhibition 

 cases in the North Gallery, and have been placed in cabinets 

 in the Medal Room, pending their re-exhibition in the new 

 Department of Coins and Medals. 



V. — Visitors to the Medal Room and the Gold 

 Ornament Room.. 



The number of visitors to the Medal Room during 1892 

 was 1,723. 



The number of visitors to the Gold Ornament Room during 

 1892 was 19,801. 



Barclay V. Head. 



X. — 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 1892. 



General. 



Assistant Keeper ship, Geological Department 



Mr. Arthur Smith "Woodward, Second-class Assistant in the 

 Department of Geology, has been appointed by the Principal 

 Trustees to the Assistant Keepership of the Department, ren- 

 dered vacant by Mr. Etheridge's retirement. 



Warding of Galleries. 

 The Trustees have resolved, with Treasury concurrence, to 

 substitute commissionaires for police constables in warding 

 the exhibition galleries of the Museum, whereby a saving of 

 about 500/. annually will be effected, and a step taken in the 

 direction of finding employment for men who have passed 

 through the ranks of the Army and Navy. 



Swiney Lectures. 



Professor H. Alleyne Nicholson gave his third course of 

 lectures on the Swiney Foundation during October, his sub- 

 ject on this occasion being " The Great Periods of Geological 

 History." The total number of persons attending the twelve 

 lectures was 2,719 (as compared with 2,565 in 1891), being an 

 average of nearly 227 persons at each lecture. Although it is 



0.108. satisfactory 



