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Department of British and Medieval Antiquities and 

 Ethnography. 



I. — Arrangement, Cataloguing, etc. 



Prehistoric Section. — Additional labels have been pro- 

 vided for the series of French palseolithic implements, and 

 permanent labels for recent acquisitions of British pottery.. 

 The cases of German pottery have been cleaned and the 

 contents re-arranged with permanent labels. The table-cases 

 in the Central Saloon have been cleared and the Greenwell 

 collection of the Bronze Age classified and exhibited. 



Romano-British Section. — To provide exhibition space for 

 the Greenwell Bronze Age collection, six table-cases have been 

 cleared and the contents exhibited in a series of drawers- 

 accessible to the public, below the central table-casea. 

 Permanent labels have been added to the collection of Roman 

 glass. 



Anglo-Saxon Room. — An inventory of the contents of 

 144 drawers below the table- cases has' been made, and the 

 remainder of the Greenwell and Edelmann collections stored. 



Mediaeval Room. — The table-case and wall-cases containing- 

 the collection of ivory carvings have been cleaned, and the 

 contents labelled in accordance with the Catalogue. The 

 permanent labelling of other sections has been continued. 



Gold Ornament Room. — Progress has been made with the 

 permanent labelling of the Franks Bequest. 



Glass and Ceramic Room. — The collection of beads has- 

 been removed to make room for the Falcke Collection of 

 Wedgwood ware. The wall-cases containing German stoneware 

 have been cleared and refilled with English and Dutch delft^ 

 to provide further space for the Wedgwood collection, which 

 has been cleaned and exhibited in part with permanent 

 labels. 



Asiatic Saloon. — Three standard -cases of Chinese porcelain 

 have been cleaned ; and pottery and porcelain from Siam and 

 Borneo transferred, as well as a section of Chinese pottery. 

 A number of Chinese architectural ornaments of glazed pottery 

 have been placed above the wall-cases. The collection of 

 armorial porcelain has been re-arranged to allow of the 

 expansion of the purely Chinese wares. 



Gallery of Religions. — The Gandhara sculptures and 

 Japanese Buddhist collection have been removed from the 

 northern range of wall-cases for structural alterations. 



Ethnographical Gallery. — Five large standai-d-cases have 

 been cleaned. A portion of the Torday collection from the 

 Congo Free State has been exhibited in the African section,, 

 and a large friction-drum from East Africa placed above 

 case 109. In the Pacific section a frame of specimens from the 

 London Missionary Society's collection has been placed on a 



