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presented by Mr. J. R. Saunders ; and a set of etchings by H.M. Queen 

 Victoria and Prince Albert, presented by H.M. the King ; while from 

 the contemporary period the Dej)artment has received two very large 

 gifts, viz., 161 prints and drawings presented by the Contemporary 

 Art Society, and 218 modern Russian prints, presented by the artists 

 as a mark of gratitude to Mr. Frank Brangwyn, R.A., and by him 

 transferred to the Museum. Finally eight drawings by the late Mr. T. 

 Derwent Wood, R.A., have been acquired, partly by gift from Mrs. 

 Derwent Wood. 



The Oriental Section of the Department of Prints and Drawings 

 received a most valuable selection of Chinese and Japanese paintings 

 from the collection of the late Dr. William Bateson, whose premature 

 death was a great loss to the Museum, of which he was a Trustee. 

 These paintings were presented by Mrs. Bateson in his memory, together 

 with a remarkable series of Corean well-heads and other objects of 

 Corean and Chinese art. Two copies of wall-paintings from the caves of 

 Bagh, in India, were also acquired, and at the end of the year the 

 Trustees received on loan (to be converted ultimately into a gift) 

 from Mr. George Eumorfopoulos a magnificent series of large Chinese 

 frescoes, the like of which exists in no country outside China. One 

 of these, a panel 13ft. square, contains three colossal and majestic 

 figures, attributed to the 12th century ; the others, each about 9 ft. 

 high, are of later date, probably of the 14th century. 



In the Department of Egyptian and Assyrian Antiquities a con- 

 siderable number of smaller accessions have been made, which fill 

 definite gaps in the collections, e.g. a series of over a hundred vases of 

 various jDeriods, from the pre-dynastic to the Roman, and an interesting 

 group of small objects in blue faience. Other acquisitions include 

 Egyptian objects from By bios, six fragments of a cylinder containing 

 a new edition of the Annals of King Ashur-bani-pal, and a fine early 

 Sumerian stone vase, with a bull carved in high relief. Valuable 

 gifts also have to be acknowledged : from Dr. Alan Gardiner an ad- 

 mirable series of drawings of Egyptian tomb -paintings, by Mrs. N. de 

 Garis Davies, and some papyri ; from Prof. P. E. Newberry a group of 

 miscellaneous Egyptian antiquities, and a share, with Mrs. J. H. Rea 

 and Dr. H. R. Hall, in the gift of four antiquities from the Carmichael 

 collection ; from Mr. Howard Carter, a funerary stele of the XVIIIth 

 Dynasty ; from Gen. Sir John Maxwell, G.C.B., two limestone offering- 

 troughs of the Vth or Vlth Dynasty ; from the Eg3^pt Exploration 

 Society a most valuable series of tomb-groups from Abydos, including 

 necklaces, model tools, pottery, etc., and not a few others. 



The Department of Greek and Roman Antiquities has fewer out- 

 standing acquisitions to report than last year. The most noteworthy 

 are 139 primitive bronze objects from Sardinia : 47 vases and small 

 objects from the Cyclades, presented by Mrs. Theodore Bent, and nine 

 vases from the Bateman collection, including a fine Attic amphora and 

 a large Graeco-Etruscan vase, both of the sixth century. 



The Department of British and Mediaeval Antiquities, on the other 

 hand, has made two acquisitions of the first rank, in the Byzantine 

 reliquary, already mentioned (purchased with the aid of the National 

 Art-Collections Fund and Mr. O. M. Dalton), and the ivory triptych of 

 Bishop Grandisson, to which the same Fund contributed. A valuable 

 bequest of early dials and other mathematical instruments was made 

 by Col. G. B. Croft Lyons, and a number of weights and measures, 

 with other objects, v.ere presented by Dr. W. L. Hildburgh. Other 

 acquisitions included the gold armlet of the Bronze Age, found on 



