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Playing Cards. 



Impressions of a set of sixteen engraved on silver plates by 

 P. Benner, at Augsburg, about 1610-20, now in the possession 

 of Mr. Falcke. Presented hy Isaac Falcke, Esq. 



Books of Prints. 



Brown, Ford Madox. A series of twenty autotype repro- 

 ductions of his cartoons. 



Lippmann, Friedrich. " Zeichnungen von Albrecht Diirer 

 in Nachbildungen," Abth. XXIII-XXV., Berlin, 1894, fol. 



" La Rigenerazione dell'Olanda " ; with twenty political 

 caricatures etched by H. Hess ; Venice, 1799. 



Sidney Colvin. 



Department of Egyptian and Assyrian Antiquities. 

 I. — Arrangement, Cataloguing, etc. 



Egyptian Antiquities : — 



The general re-arrangement of the Egyptian Collection has 

 been continued, and a number of important objects acquired 

 during the year have been incorporated and exhibited. 



Five hundred and sixty-six labels have been written and 

 painted, and attached to objects in the exhibition cases ; five 

 hundred wooden labels have been prepared ; one hundred and 

 sixty -nine oak plinths and pedestals have been made ; three 

 frescoes have been repaired and mounted ; one hundred and 

 ninety-one objects have been cleaned and mounted ; labels 

 have been affixed to the sarcophagi in the basement. Twenty- 

 seven ostraka have been joined. 



Nine hundred and eighty-six objects of the various collec- 

 tions, and three hundred and thirty-three scarabs have been 

 registered and catalogued. 



The Egyptian text of the Book of the Dead from the 

 Papyrus of Ani, with interlinear transliteration and trans- 

 lation, running translation, introduction, &c. has been pub- 

 lished. The section of the General Guide describing the 

 antiquities in the Department has been revised and enlarged, 

 Two papyri have been transcribed. 



0.97^ D 4 Assyrian 



