BRITISH AND MEDI.EYAL ANTIQUITIES. 65 



Department of British and Mediaeval Antiquities and 

 Ethnography. 



I. — Arrangement. 



Prehistoric Section. — The labelling of the bronze objects 

 by means of type-written tickets has been proceeded with, 

 and is practically complete : the table-cases containing the 

 French, Italian, and British barrow antiquities have been 

 re-arranged. The wall-cases containing the Greenwell Collec- 

 tion have been repainted, and the objects replaced after 

 cleaning. Plinths with permanent labels have now been 

 provided for most of the Bronze Age pottery from Germany. 



Late-Geltic and Gaulish Sections. — The wall-case fittings 

 for the Morel collection have been completed, and a frame 

 with four plates from M. Morel's Album, representing the 

 chariot-burial at Somme Bionne (Marne) has been placed in 

 the case containing the antiquities from the grave. 



Romano-British Section.— Additions have been made to 

 the selection of sepulchral and domestic pottery on exhibition. 

 Two stone labels have been affixed to inscribed tablets in the 

 Roman Gallery on the ground-floor. 



Meclioival Room. — Much progress has been made with the 

 permanent labelling of the collections, and certain sections, 

 including the Oriental metal-work, are now complete. 



Glass and Ceraraic Room. — The English pottery has 

 been numbered in accordance with the recently published 

 Catalogue, and a large number of the pieces have been 

 permanently labelled. 



Asiatic Saloon. — The remainder of the reconstructed wall- 

 cases (92-100) have been refitted specially for the exhibition, 

 by permission of the India Office, of a collection of mis- 

 cellaneous antiquities discovered in Eastern Turkestan by 

 Dr. M. A. Stein. Smaller objects are exhibited in table-case H 

 adjoining. Two table-cases containing Japanese and Chinese 

 porcelain have been cleared and provided Avith plate-glass 

 fittings, while the case of Japanese sword-guards has been 

 refittei and lined. 



Gallery of Religions. — An additional standard-case has 

 been filled with selected pieces of Buddhist sculpture from 

 ruined topes in India; and several sculptures have been repaired 

 and mounted on stone or wooden plinths. 



American Room. — All the cases have been cleared, and 

 the wall-cases dismantled and removed to make way for 

 . new suite. 



Ethnographical Gallery. — In the Asiatic section the 

 Tibetan, Mongolian, and Burmese ornaments and Asiatic pipes 

 in table-case 206 have been arranged and labelled, and a frame 

 of Assamese ornaments exhibited on a screen in the centre. 



