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The Merovingian period is also well represented by a 

 complete series of sepulchral vases and a variety of brooches 

 and other ornaments, including a rare and massive buckle 

 of crystal ; and a complete burial of a warrior has been 

 preserved intact. 



Space for the exhibition of most of this valuable acqui- 

 sition has been provided by the removal of the early British 

 antiquities to the Central Saloon; and by the addition of 

 three table-cases to the southern wing, which will be known 

 as the Gaulish section. 



The work of transporting the collection to England as well 

 as storing and arranging it in the Museum has been consider- 

 able ; but progress has been made with the registration, and 

 certain sections have been already exhibited in the newly 

 fitted wall-cases. 



IV. — Christy Collection. 

 During the year 859 slips have been prepared for the 

 Registration Catalogue, with sketches of the objects, and 

 513 objects have been registered. The Christy Trustees have 

 acquired by donation, purchase, and exchange, the following 

 objects which they have transferred to the Trustees of the 

 British Museum. 



I. — Prehistoric Antiquities of Europe, Asia, and 

 Africa : — 

 Donation. 

 The lower jaw of a mammoth ; Sir Henry H. Howorth, 



K.C.I.E. 



Exchange. 

 With the Free Public Museums, Liverpool; series of 

 chipped chert implements from the Wadi esh-Sheikh, and the 

 Wadi Sagur in the desert East of the Nile; collected by 

 H. W. Seton-Karr, Esq., in 1896. 



II. — Ethnography of Asia : — 

 Donations. 

 Coat woven of elm-bark fibre, and ornamented with 

 embroidered cloth, and embroidered cloth leggings, from the 

 Ainu of Yezo, Japan ; Sir William Neville Geary, Bart. 



Fire-sticks used by the Todas, Nayadis, and Paniyans of 

 Southern India ; Edgar Thurston, Esq. 



III. — Ethnography of Africa. 

 Donations. 

 Four beads from Southern Kavirondo, Uganda Protecto- 

 rate ; C. W. Hobley, Esq. 



Silk handkerchief woven by peasants of the Canary 

 Islands ; G. Graham Toler, Esq. 



