BRITISH AND MEDIEVAL ANTIQUITIES. 63 



Department of British and MEDiiEVAL Antiquities and 

 Ethnography. 



I. — Arrangement. 



Mediceval Room. — The wall cases in this room have been 

 completed, and the contents replaced with the necessary 

 re-arrangements. One section has, however, been devoted to 

 the display of a small part of the objects bequeathed by 

 Sir A. WoUaston Franks, which will remain on exhibition in 

 this room for a limited time. All the specimens belonging to 

 the room, which had been removed during the construction of 

 the new cases, have been examined and cleaned before being 

 replaced. 



Seven table cases have been lined with velvet. The con- 

 tents have been cleaned and re-arranged in live of the cases ; 

 and the labels of the collection of watches have been revised 

 and printed in the department. In four of the other table 

 cases is temporarily shown a large part of the Franks 

 Bequest of jewellery, including finger rings, and other objects 

 of small size. Two of the cases containing the more intrinsi- 

 cally valuable objects have been protected with added plates 

 of glass. 



Glass and Ceramic Room. — The various additions to this 

 series have been incorporated, with labels attached. An 

 important bowl of Kutahia ware has been mounted on a 

 separate pedestal under a glass shade. 



Pre-historic Room.- — The two wall cases containing the 

 palaeolithic implements from England and the Continent 

 have been taken down, reduced to proportions more suitable 

 to the nature of the contents, and made more dust-proof, the 

 implements having meanwhile been placed in drawers. The 

 implements and the insides of the cases have been cleaned, 

 as have also seven of the wall cases containing remains of a 

 later period. 



Ethnographical Gallery. — Considerable re-arrangement of 

 the African section has been found necessary, to accommodate 

 the objects from the Benin expedition. A large central case 

 has been devoted to the carved tusks and a portion of the 

 bronzes. The large collection of bronze plaques sent by 

 Sir Ralph Moor, the Commissioner for the Niger Coast 

 Protectorate, to the Foreign Office, and deposited on loan at 

 the Museum, has been temporarily arranged on screens in the 

 Assyrian Saloon. It is intended to include such of these 

 remarkable castings as become the property of the Museum 

 in a publication on the older relics from West Africa. 



A large number of East African specimens have been 

 labelled, and the registration on slips of Lord Lonsdale's 

 Arctic collection has been completed. 



