60 accounts, etc., of the british museum. 



Department of Greek and Roman Antiquities. 

 I. — Arrangement, Cataloguing, etc. 



In the Archaic Eoom a new pedestal has been made for 

 the cast of the Nike of Paeonios, and a cast of the inscription 

 inserted in it. The Harpy Tomb has been moved and 

 rebuilt. Progress has been made in reconstructing an 

 archaic Ionic capital from the Temple of Diana at Ephesus ; 

 a capital from Naucratis has been restored. Eight marble 

 heads, ten statuettes, and three reliefs have been mounted ; 

 93 plinths and seven pedestals cleaned. Thirteen new moulds 

 have been made from sculptures. The table- and wall-cases 

 in the First Vase Room have been rearranged ; new fittings 

 prepared in the Gold Ornament Room with its Vestibule, and 

 in the First Vase Room. Two terracotta sarcophagi have been 

 mounted in the First Vase Room ; a series of antiquities from 

 the Ticino Valley mounted on tablets ; eleven ebonised 

 labels prepared for wall-cases. Fifty vases and several 

 fragments, ten terracottas, four bronzes, and one object in 

 silver have been cleaned and restored ; 36 casts from gems 

 made ; 241 labels written and attached to objects ; the 

 numbers on 159 old labels altered. Two hundred and fifty- 

 nine objects have been registered. 



Progress has been made in the preparation of the following- 

 Catalogues : — Vases (Vol. I.) ; Sculpture (Vol. III.) ; and 

 Terracottas. A new edition of the Guide to the Department 

 has been prepared for publication. 



The number of visits made by students to the Depart- 

 mental Library for purposes of research is 570. Special 

 assistance was given to the architectural class of the 

 Polytechnic, Regent Street (80 in number) on December 21st, 

 and to the architectural class of the Royal School of Art, 

 South Kensington (25 in number), on December 10th, 13th, 

 16th, and 17th. Facilities were given to a party from 

 Toynbee Hall, conducted by Mr. Warwick Draper, on 

 December 14th, to students of architecture under Professor 

 Elsey Smith on December I7th, and to students of 

 archaeology under Professor E. Gardner in a series of 

 visits. 



II. — Acquisitions. 

 By Purchase. 



I. — Objects in gold. 



1. Finger-ring with small projection, on which is engraved 

 the monogram 1^ 



