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Fac-simile of the ancient Mexican manuscript now in the 

 Free Public Museums, Liverpool, and known as the Codex 

 Fejervary-Mayer ; given by the Due de Loubat. 



Bone pin, carved with totemic designs from the North- West 

 Coast ; given by L. Rosenheim, Esq. 



Small vessel of buff pottery in the shape of a fish, contain- 

 ing a bead of polished green stone, from British Honduras. 



III. — The Morel Collection. 



An important addition has been made to the Continental 

 series illustrating the late-Celtic or early British period in 

 these islands, by the purchase of the Gaulish collection of 

 M. Leon Morel, Hon. f.s.a., of Rheims and formerly of 

 Chalons-sur-Marne. Hitherto the Museum has been unable 

 to acquire more than a few isolated specimens of this period 

 from abroad, but is now in possession of a fairly complete 

 representation of the civilisation of north-east France from 

 the palaeolithic age to the Carlovingian period. 



A lai-ge collection of stone implements, including some 

 striking specimens from the Drift and relics from neolithic 

 graves and factory sites, illustrates the early phases of 

 human life in north-west Europe, and by inference in Britain, 

 both before and after our country became detached from the 

 Continent. 



Of the Bronze period there are swords with wide chapes of 

 a type barely represented in the Museum ; also a number of 

 celts and bracelets, some of which are highly decorated. 



But the most valuable part of the collection comprises 

 many rare and richly ornamented articles of bronze, ranging 

 in date between 400 and 250 B.C. A red-figured kylix 

 of the late Greek period, and a large Etruscan oinochoe 

 with gold decoration from a grave at Somme Bionne, Dept. 

 Marne, where a warrior had been buried on his chariot, 

 furnish a central date for this important series, which has 

 already been published, with an album of coloured plates, 

 under the title of La Champagne Souterraine (Rheims, 1898). 

 A large and representative collection of Gaulish pottery serves 

 to illustrate the connection between the dwellers on the 

 Marne and the Britons of the corresponding period ; and at 

 the same time to emphasize difierences in detail between the 

 population on either side of the Channel. 



The abundant and well-preserved pottery of the Gallo- 

 Roman period forms another section of the Morel collection, 

 and will be temporarily exhibited in this Department. Besides 

 a large number of minor objects, there is a fine series of glass, 

 two heads from statues of Trajan and Diocletian, and a bas- 

 relief found at the Roman triumphal arch still standing 

 at Rheims. A leaden cofiin of a child illustrates the funeral 

 furniture characteristic of this time. 



