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Franks, K.C.B., has been examined ; a selection has been 

 made of those items wanted by the Department, and the 

 remainder returned to Mr. C. H. Kead as residuary legatee. 

 The paintings retained, together with the others recently 

 acquired, have been placed under the several schools and 

 incorporated in the main collection, which has been rearranged 

 throughout. The existing catalogue has been interleaved ; 

 Mr. Kohitsu's corrections have been inserted, and the 

 catalogue of all new items incorporated. 



Two early and important Japanese paintings, one by 

 Nobuzane (Xlllth century), the other by Sesshiu (XVth. 

 century), being in a precarious condition owing to their age,, 

 have been placed between sheets of glass and framed for 

 their better preservation, 



A list of selected Japanese and Chinese paintings has been 

 made for the use of students. 



The collection of etchings by artists and amateurs of the 

 Norwich School, purchased by the Trustees from Mr. James 

 Reeve, has been examined and arranged ; those etchings of 

 which duplicates were already in the Department have been 

 taken out and returned to Mr. Reeve. The drawings by John 

 Sell Cotman have been prepared for mounting. 



The work of bringing together into one alphabetical series 

 the English book plates from various divisions of the Franks 

 collection, and of eliminating duplicates, has been continued 

 and completed ; the arrangement of the book plates in albums 

 has also been continued, and thirty albums, containing half 

 the entire series, down to the name Marsham, have been 

 completed and placed. Proofs of Volume I. of the catalogue 

 of English book plates have been corrected down to the end 

 of the letter B. 



The work of stamping, preparing, and specially repairing 

 the collection of mezzotint portraits bequeathed by the late 

 Lord Cheylesmore, and of mounting them in two series, 

 " select," and " ordinary," has been begun. 



A series of prints and drawings illustrating the Coronations 

 of English Sovereigns has been arranged and exhibited, with 

 contributions from other departments, in the King's Library. 



A series of forty duplicate engraved portraits of naval and 

 military commanders was lent to the Committee of the 

 Portsmouth Exhibition, and later to the Committee of the 

 Naval and Military Exhibition at Manchester, and a series of 

 thirty-one duplicate mezzotints to the Victoria Art Gallery 

 of the Corporation of Bath. 



The preparation of slips for a general index to the collection 

 of Foreign Portraits has been continued. 



The work of correcting and completing the second copy of 

 the index to the collection of English Portraits has been 

 continued. 



