^7"4 ACCOUNTS, ETC.j OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM. 



Department of British and Medieval Antiquities ai^^i) 

 Ethnography. 



1.— Arrangement. 



Prehistoric Section. — A new table-case has been supplied 

 to contain a scale model of Stonehenge, with diagrams and 

 explanatory label. A series of modern flints, pottery, &c. 

 illustrating prehistoric methods has been exhibited in the 

 lower part of Table-case H, and a prehistoric collection from 

 Aberdeenshire in the corresponding part of Case K. Seven 

 cases in Stone Age Gallery have been cleared for cleaning. 



Late-Keltic and Gaulish Sections. — The exhibition of the 

 Morel Collection has been completed by the addition of the 

 Merovingian series in Cases 61, 62 ; and two stumps of stakes 

 from the Thames at Brentford have been mounted above 

 Wall-cases .56-60. 



Romano-British Section. — The red Gallo-Roman ware 

 found in Britain has been permanently labelled and exhibited 

 in chronological order ; stamped fragments of the same 

 arranged in alphabetical order in drawers ; arid a series of 

 plain red-ware dredged from Pudding-pan Rock, Heme Bay, 

 has been exhibited in Wall-case 97. The collections from 

 caves in Yorkshire have been remounted, and a diagram of 

 Arretine and Gallo-Roman pottery, as arranged by Dr. 

 DragendorfF, affixed to the screen. 



Anglo-Saxon Room. — Part of the Gibbs Bequest has been 

 re-mounted and re-arranged, and temporary labels provided 

 for the series of Scottish and Irish brooches. 



Mediceval Room. — The permanent labelling of the Italian 

 plaquettes has been commenced, and the Oct. Morgan collec- 

 tion of watches permanently labelled. 



Glass and Gera'mic Room.. — The maiolica collection has 

 been temporarily labelled and arranged in accordance with 

 the slip catalogue, and the series of Egyptian and Greek glass 

 mounted and furnished with type-written labels. 



Asiatic Saloon. — The Chinese porcelain has been cleaned 

 and re-arranged as far as Case 70, and the majority of 

 Chinese and Japanese bronzes labelled. 



Gallery of Religions. — Important collections from Tibet 

 have been exhibited in Wall-cases 46-55 of the Buddhist 

 Koom and the adjoining table-case. Permanently labelled 

 plinths have been provided for Indian Buddhist carvings. 



Ethnographical Gallery. — The floors have been polished 

 throughout and standard and table-cases shifted for the 

 purpose. In the Oceanic section the London Missionary 

 Society's collection has been re-arranged in Cases 141-3 ; the 



