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room has been arranged ; three stone plinths have been 

 cleaned and labelled. 



General labels have been painted for the Prehistoric, 

 Roman and Saxon Eooms, and 24 other labels have been 

 painted. 



A number of Saxon antiquities have been cleaned and re- 

 paired, and nine oil paintings have been cleaned, varnished, 

 and protected by glass. 



During the year there have been 1,807 visitors to the 

 studies of the Department. 



II. — Acquisitions. 



(1.) Early British and Prehistoric Antiquities : — 



Twenty-one flint implements from the Drift in Suffolk, 

 and twenty-six others from the Thames Valley. 



Sixteen arrow heads, cores, &;c., from the neighbourhood of 

 Linton, Kent ; presented by D. F. Kennard, Esq. Other 

 neolithic specimens from Suff'olk, and the Thames near 

 Taplow, as well as some curious implements of stag's horn 

 from the latter locality. An anvil, flakes, and cores of flint, 

 from Skellmuir, Aberdeenshire ; presented by Frederick 

 Rooper, Esq. 



Four British urns from Hut Circles, near Maidenhead, and 

 two others found in a barrow at Felixstow, Suff'olk. 



Bronze palstave from Shelford, Cambridgeshire ; presented 

 by Sir A. W. Franks. Bronze spearhead from Haxey, 

 Lincolnshire, and two " founders' hoards " from Allhallows, 

 Hoo, Kent. Eleven bronze implements, including a fine 

 scabbard end and a sickle, the latter long a desideratum, all 

 from the Thames, near Taplow. 



The foreign illustrations include : — 



Fifteen quartzite implements of palaeolithic type from 

 Raipur, on the Jumna, India ; presented by C. Maries, Esq. 



Four implements of palaeolithic type from the desert 

 behind Coptos, Egypt, and 20 flint implements from the town 

 of Coptos ; presented by H. Martyn Kennard, Esq. Two 

 stone axes from the same place ; presented by Jesse Haworth, 

 Esq. 



A collection of bronze implements from the Lake of 

 Neuchatel, Switzerland ; presented by Sir A. W. Franks ; 

 and two very rare wooden handles from the Swiss Lakes, 

 presented by the Rev. William Greenwell, d.c.l., f.e.s. 



A bronze axe of rare type, found in the county of Csongrad^ 

 Hungary. 



A Chinese bronze spear-head with inscription giving the 

 date equivalent to A.D. 196-220, a knife used as money, 

 and three bronze mirrors, all from China ; six silver plates, 

 probablv from Gungeria, Central India; all presented by 

 Sir A. W. Franks. 



