78 ACCOUNTS, ETC.; OF THE BEITISH MUSEUM. 



Kegistration numbers have been painted on 4,417 speci- 

 mens, and 1,778 permanent labels written. Wooden labels, 

 plinths, and pedestals to the number of 1,564 have been 

 prepared. 



An Ogham stone has been repaired and mounted, and an 

 Indian sculpture mounted : several pieces of Central American 

 sculpture and two figures in the Colonnade have been washed. 

 Ninety-seven packing-cases of specimens collected on the 

 Cooke-Daniells expedition to New Guinea have been dealt 

 with, and 17 cases of specimens despatched to various 

 museums. 



One thousand nine hundred and five students and visitors 

 have been received in the Department ; and two parties from 

 the John Lyon School at Harrow conducted through the 

 Prehistoric section by a member of the Staff. 



II. — Acquisitions. 



(1.) Prehistoric and Early British Antiquities ;— 



A porphyry palaeolithic implement and two of flint from 

 Hertingfordbury, Herts ; several palaeolithic flints from 

 Knowle Farm Quarry, Savernake Forest, and some of 

 exceptionally small size from the same site and from 

 Welwyn, Herts; found and given by Rev. H. G. 0. Kendall. 



Ochreous flint of " eolithic " form and small dimensions 

 from the North Downs, near Ightham ; and part of an 

 implement from the palaeolithic area north of Ash Church, 

 near Wrotham, Kent ; given by B. Harrison, Esq. 



A large flint pounder from the Thames at Hammersmith ; 

 a polished flint celt found near Mitcham, Surrey; flint 

 arrow-heads and flakes from Northdale, near Bridlington, 

 E.R. Yorks ; and a barbed arrow-head from Blackaton Farm, 

 Bodmin Moors ; given by C. H. Read, Esq., F.S.A. 



Part of a broad flat knife of flint dredged from the 

 Thames at Cookham, Berks ; given by R. E. Goolden, Esq., 



F.S.A. 



A pierced stone axe-hammer of exceptional workmanship, 

 dredged from the millstream at Cookham, Berks, 1896 ; 

 given by Stephen Darby, Esq. 



Pottery vase with a band of bosses, perhaps of neolithic 

 date ; found in the Thames. 



A model of Stonehenge, Wilts. 



A bronze halbert-blade and dagger with rivets found at 

 Wrexham, Denbigh, 1838, the former illustrated in Archceo- 

 logical Journal, XI. 414 ; a similar halbert-blade of the 

 Bronze Age from Maryport, Cumberland, with three rivets 

 in position. 



