'76 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM. 



II. — Exhibitions. 



In the new Desk-cases on either side of the Corridor, on the 

 North side of the Medal Room, a con)prehensive selection of 

 English Historical Medals, and a series of the finest Italian 

 Renaissance medals and Papal medals (Guide Books to which 

 are already published) have been arranged and labelled. 



To these have been added many of the most interesting 

 French, Flemish, Dutch, and German works of the Sixteenth 

 and Seventeenth Centuries, by the best-known medallists. 



In the four windows of this corridor have also been placed 

 photographic transparencies on glass of a select series of 45 

 of the masterpieces of the medallic art, comprising much 

 enlarged reproductions of some of the most beautiful Greek 

 and Roman coins, and of Italian, French, and English medals. 



An illustrative selection from the coinage of Great Britain 

 and Ireland from the earliest Anglo-Saxon times down to the 

 present century is in course of preparation, and as soon as 

 this can be completed, the Exhibition Corridor will be ready 

 to be thrown open to the public. 



III. — Registration and Arrangement. 

 1. Greek Series : — 



651 coins, of various parts of the Greek world, recently 

 acquired, have been registered, and 647 incorporated. 



The work of writing and placing beneath the coins tickets 

 giving references to the published Catalogues of Greek Coins 

 has been continued, as follows: — Attica, 627 tickets; Mysia, 

 373; Pontus, 983; Alexandria, 2,143 (completing these 

 volumes) ; Ionia, 101 ; Troas, 1,282 ; in all, 5,509 tickets. 



13 coins, hitherto classed as uncertain, have been identified, 

 and incorporated in their proper places. 



4 bronze coins of Antoninus Pius, formerly attributed to 

 Caesarea in Cappadocia, have been removed to the Koivov 

 of Cyprus, in accordance with the evidence of finds. The 

 bronze coins of Antiochus IV, of Syria, have been removed 

 from the regal series, and placed under the various mints at 

 which they were struck. The coins of Briula, Mastaura, Nysa, 

 and Tralles, in Lydia, have been arranged in chronological 

 order. The series of the coins of Cossura, Gaulos, and Melita 

 have been re-arranged in accordance with the recent work 

 of Albert Mayr. 



The duplicates in the series of Crete, the Islands, Mysia, 

 Pontus, Bithynia, Troas, Aeolis, Lesbos, and Ionia, have been 

 Temoved to a separate cabinet. 



The series of Alexander the Great and his successors, and 

 those of Greece Proper, from Thessaly to Peloponnesus, of 

 •Crete, the Islands, and of Asia Minor, as far as Pisidia, have 

 been removed to fresh cabinets, of which 30 have been re- 

 polished 



