72 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM. 



The slip catalogue of English porcelain has been completed, 

 and that of English pottery, and another of pilgrims' signs, 

 tokens, and cloth- marks have been continued,, and are nearing 

 completion. The slip catalogue of objects belonging to the 

 Early ChriGtian and Byzantine periods has been completed, 

 and plates of most of the principal specimens prepared for 

 the forthcoming catalogue to be published by the Trustees, 

 The slip catalogue of prehistoric gold ornaments has been 

 revised, and that of the Franks collection of finger-rings 

 completed. 



The Ceramic Library has been re-arranged and press- 

 marked, and the contents of cupboards and drawers in the 

 study-passage in part examined and labelled. Over three 

 hundred miscellaneous photographs have been mounted and 

 classified ; and 884 permanent labels have been written. A 

 large number of ticket-labels have also been written, espe- 

 cially for the ethnographical collections. 



About 1,500 wooden tablets have been prepared and covered 

 with velvet for mounting finger-rings in the Franks bequest; 

 also 1,000 blocks for attaching to card- labels, and 250 pedestals 

 and stands of various kinds. Twenty frames have been made, 

 and S3veral cupboards provided with extra fittings. Eighty- 

 six miscellaneous objects have been mounted on boards, and 

 about 1,500 slips and labels printed on the hand-press. Six 

 stone plinths have been prepared, and two stone statuettes 

 repaired. 



During the year there have been 1,806 visitors to the 

 studies of this department. 



II. — Acquisitions. 

 (1.) Early British and Prehistoric Antiquities : — 



A series of "eolithic" or plateau flint implements from 

 Kent, from the collection of Mr. B. Harrison, given by the 

 British Association for the Advancement of Science. 



A number of palaeolithic implements from the neighbour- 

 hood of Southampton, and a bronze palstave from Mickenford, 

 Essex ; given by William Dale, Esq., f.s.a. 



0ns half of a stone mould for casting socketed celts, found 

 at Fethard Castle, Co. Wexford ; given by Max Rosenheim, 

 Esq., F.S.A. 



A socketed celt of unusual form with punched dots, from 

 Newbald, Beverley ; and a bronze armlet from a burial near 

 Ramsgate. 



A stone spindle-whorl from the parish of Menheniot, 

 Cornwall ; given by William Mutton, Esq. 



A fine bronze brooch of the safety-pin type, found in a 

 chalk-pit at Deal : given by W. R. Cave, Esq. 



