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North Gallery. — The arrangement of the two rooms re- 

 maining from last year, viz., the Christian room and that 

 containing the Brahmanical, Jain, Muhammadan, Jewish, «Szic. 

 collections, has been completed, and a large number of recent 

 acquisitions have been incorporated. Owing to the numerous 

 additions in the Buddhist section, considerable re-arrange- 

 ments have been found necessary. 



The registration of current acquisitions has been continued, 

 and 2,022 objects have been registered; 1,003 objects in the 

 general collection, acquired since the year 1837, have been 

 registered ; extracts relating to the Department have been 

 made from the general Donation Book of the Museum, com- 

 mencing in 1756, so as to form a skeleton register down to 

 the year 1837, when the present system of registration com- 

 menced. This has been completed up to 1770. 



Thirty-one ethnographical objects have been drawn and 

 described for the slip catalogue. 



Thirty-eight headings to catalogue slips have been printed 

 with the hand-press in the Department; 470 objects have 

 been mounted on tablets, and 25 boards have been covered 

 with paper. Six vessels of pottery and glass have been 

 repaired, and a number of iron objects treated to arrest 

 decay. 



Forty-four matrices of seals have been mounted, with 

 impressions at their sides. 



Forty-six matrices of seals have been catalogued on slips. 



A number of stone sculptures have been mounted on 

 plinths. A large Abyssinian picture has been framed, glazed, 

 and labelled. 



Thirty blocks for class labels have been made and polished, 

 and a great number of labels have been written, especially 

 for the Religious collections. 



The Byzantine weights in the Department have been 

 weighed and labelled, including some that have been trans- 

 ferred from the Department of Greek and Roman Anti- 

 quities. 



II. — A cquisitions. 



(1.) Early British and Prehistoric Antiquities: — 



The most important acquisition in this section is the gift 

 by the Rev. William Greenwell, d.c.l., f.r.s., of a further 

 series of objects excavated by him in British barrows, and 

 described in " Archseologia," vol. lii. These are the contents 

 of nine barrows at Willerby and Folkton, East Riding of 

 Yorkshire ; they include three very curious objects in chalk, 

 the purpose of which is unknown ; they are richly orna • 

 mented, and unlike any barrow remains hitherto discovered. 



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