64 accounts, etc., of the british museum. 



Department of Greek and Roman Antiquities. 



I. — Arrangement, Cataloguing, &c. 



The sculptures in the Third Gr£eco-Eoman Room have been 

 rearranged ; the reliefs and busts have been placed togethei' 

 on the N. side, which is best lighted, and the archaistic sculp- 

 tures grouped together at one end of the room. In the 

 Archaic Room the statuettes from Naukratis and Kameiros 

 have been mounted and arranged in a double case, and a series 

 of casts from objects found at Knossos has been exhibited. 

 In the Elgin Room a new cast of the first metope on the 

 S. side of the Parthenon has been placed on a slate shelf on 

 the S. wall. The casts inserted in the Parthenon Frieze have 

 been painted so as to harmonize with the rest of the frieze. 

 The spaces between the friezes in the Nereid Room have been 

 filled in with Caen stone. A. case has been prepared in the 

 Etruscan Saloon for the temporary exhibition of recent 

 acquisitions. A series of frescoes has been framed and 

 placed on the wall of the Gold Ornament Room Corridor. 

 The floors of the first, second, and third Vase Rooms and of 

 the Terra-cotta Room have been planed and polished ; this 

 necessitated the temporary shifting of many of the cases 

 in these rooms. 



Two statues, 3 busts, 4 heads, and 16 fragments have been 

 mounted on marble or stone ; 102 bronzes, 66 gems, 8 vases, 

 and 1 terra-cotta mounted on wooden blocks. New fittings 

 have been made for 6 cases, and several trays for gems 

 altered. 



153 vases, 26 terra-cottas, 18 lamps, 12 bronzes, and 

 3 frescoes have been cleaned and repaired. 



631 labels have been written, 2,296 objects numbered, and 

 1,503 registered. 



Th?, third volume of the Catalogue of Sculpture has been 

 published. Progress has been made with the Catalogues of 

 Vases (Vol. I.); of Roman Pottery and Lamps; of Greek, 

 Etruscan, and Roman Jewellery ; and with the revised edition 

 of the Catalogue of Engraved Gems. 



The number of visits to the Student's Room for purposes 

 of research has been 740. 



The number of students visiting the Sculpture Galleries 

 was 2,935. 



Numerous parties of students of architecture and other 

 subjects have visited the Department for lectures and 

 demonstrations. 



