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The finger-rings in the Franks collection, for which there 

 is no exhibition space, have been classified in drawers, and 9 

 cupboards have been cleared and fitted for storing African 

 textiles and Pacific tapa-cloth. 



Photographs to the number of 170 have been taken in the 

 Department to illustrate the Early Christian and Ethno- 

 graphical Guides ; 20 stands have been varnished, 1,058 type- 

 written ticket-labels cut and bordered, 41 mounting boards 

 papered, 845 specimens mounted, and 90 headings for slips 

 printed on the hand-press. 



Registration-numbers have been painted on 3,987 speci- 

 mens, and 1,001 permanent labels written. Wooden labels, 

 plinths, trays, and pedestals have been prepared to the 

 number of 1,041, and the mounting of the Roman pavement 

 from Thruxton on slate has been completed. 



Two thousand four hundred and forty-five students and 

 visitors have been received in the Department, and two 

 parties of University Extension students have been conducted 

 through the Ethnographical Gallery and Prehistoric Room by 

 members of the staff. 



II. — A cquisitions. 



(1.) Preliistoric and Early British Antiquities : — 



A valuable collection of palaeolithic implements from 

 Reculver and Canterbury, Kent, together with specimens 

 from France ; also neolithic implements from ancient sites 

 on Dartmoor and in Cornwall, and several from France, 

 Spain, Greece, and Hungary. Bequeathed by Francis Brent, 

 Esq., F.s.A. 



An interesting series of palaeolithic implements from 

 Bedfordshire, collected by the donor, and selected to illus- 

 trate the variety existing in the district : also three examples 

 from other parts of England ; given by Worthington G. 

 Smith, Esq., f.g.s. 



A diminutive palaeolithic implement of chert from the 

 well-known pit at Broom, near Axminster ; given by Rev. 

 H. G. 0. Kendall. 



Four neolithic flint scrapers from the surface of the cliffs 

 at Pokesdown, Bournemouth ; given by R. C. J. Svvinhoe, 

 Esq. 



Polished flint celt found at Upchurch, on the Medway. 



An exceptionally fine spear-head, of early type, with two 

 gold studs in the base of the blades : dredged from the 

 Thames at Taplow, and illustrated in the Proceedings of the 

 Society of Antiquaries, Vol. XIX., p. 288. 



A hoard of damaged bronze implements and rough cakes 

 of metal found in 1901 atBromley-by-Bow, Essex, and described 

 in Proc. Soc. Ant., XIX., 14. 



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