BRITISH MUSEUM 7 



British and Medieval Antiquities. 



Of outstanding importance were nine gold ornaments of the Bronze 

 Age, Treasure Trove from Towednack, Cornwall ; and a silver Ibero- 

 Roman Treasure from Cordova. 



Ceramics and Ethnography. 



A pottery dish from Aleppo with blue and white decoration, probably 

 Rakka, twelfth century, presented by Mr. O. C. Raphael. Two 

 pottery figures of grave -guardians, T'ang Dynasty, presented by 

 Messrs. Yamanaka and Co. A Maya pottery tripod- vase, with figures 

 in relief, presented by Mr. H. A. Grant Watson. 



Coins and Medals. 



Pistrucci's wax model for his design of St. G«orge and the Dragon 

 on the sovereign of George III was presented by Capt. Bruce Ingram, 

 O.B.E. A unique gold badge commemorating Rodney's victory of 

 12 April, 1782 was purchased. 



The Research Laboratory has continued to give advice to other 

 Government Departments and public bodies and museums in all parts 

 of the Empire ; notably, the disfigurement of the Runnymede pillars 

 with creosote was successfully removed, mth the result that the stone 

 has been not only not injured, but increased in hardness. Among the 

 internal activities of the Laboratory may be mentioned the preparation 

 of a safe mixture for cleaning ancient marbles, and of a medium for 

 appl3dng to plaster of Paris casts free from the usual tendency of waxed 

 casts to retain dust ; and the treatment of the modern replica of a seventh 

 century wooden Japanese statue to prevent the gesso separatirg'from 

 the wood owing to shrinkage. Experiments have also been made in 

 the sterilising and conditioning of air in galleries. 



The following publications have been issued in the course of the j^ear : 

 General Catalogue of Printed Books, new edition. Vols. Ill (Alev- 



Amer) and IV (Amer-Anne). 

 The Luttrell Psalter, 183 plates. 

 Guide to the Islamic Pottery of the Near East. 

 Corpus Vasorum, Part VII. 



Casts of Persian Sculptures of the Achaemenid Period, 12 Plates. 

 Catalogue of Dutch and Flemish Drawings of the fourteenth and 



fifteenth centuries. Vol. V. 

 Guide to the Principal Coins of the Greeks. 

 Flints (Reprint). 



British Museum Quarterly, Vol. VI, no. 4, Vol. VII, nos. 1-3. 

 Reproductions in colour of MSS., paintings, maps, etc. : nine large, 



six small, and seven sets of postcards, also two sets of postcards 



in monochrome. 



G. F. HILL, 



Director and Principal Librarian . 



British Museum, 

 1 April, 1933. 



