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of Ceramics being abolished. Western Ceramics will return eventually 

 to the Department of British and Medieval Antiquities, 



Buildings. 



The works on the buildings commenced in 1932 were continued. 

 The new Title Room over the Catalogue Room was completed and 

 taken into use. The Manuscripts Saloon was temporarily closed in 

 order to strengthen the supports to the floor of the Asiatic Saloon 

 above ; advantage was taken of the closing to revise the Exhibition of 

 Literary and Historical MSS. The roof of the Assyrian Basement v/as 

 repaired and strengthened, and the space devoted temporarily to the 

 Staff and Students' Rooms of the Department, which had been closed 

 owing to the reconstruction of the North Wing. The Assyrian 

 Sculptures in the gallery of the Basement were necessarily closed to 

 the public. 



Temporary Exhibitions. 



The more important additions to the various departments are now 

 shown in the Entrance Hall in an Exhibition of Recent Acquisitions. 

 Among the acquisitions thus shown were the Cesena Treasure and the 

 Paston Letters. 



The Warren Hastings Exhibition, arranged in conjunction with the 

 India Office, was continued until the end of January 1933. Exhibitions 

 of the Print Department included the prints and drawings added during 

 the Keepership of Mr. Campbell Dodgson, drawings and watercolours 

 of the Turner Bequest, Japanese colour prints and oriental paintings, 

 and Japanese prints from the Shannon Collection. The Galsworthy 

 MS. of The Forsyte Saga and the George Smith Memorial Bequest of 

 MSS. have been exhibited in the Grenville Library. 



An exhibition of objects from Mr. Mallowan's excavations at Tell 

 Arpachiyah was arranged. 



The Codex Sinaiticus was exhibited during the last few daj^s of the 

 year, and long queues of visitors formed up in the Entrance Hall to 

 pass before the case in which it was placed. 



Representation at Congresses, etc. 



The Trustees were represented at Congresses, etc., as follows: at the 

 International Congress of the History of Art, at Stockholm, by Dr. 

 G. C. Brooke ; at the International Congress of Papyrologists, at Munich, 

 by Mr. T. C. Skeat ; at the West German Archaeological Society's 

 Congress, at Groningen, by Mr. C. F. C. Hawkes ; at the Museums 

 Association's Conference, at Norwich, by Mr. E. J. Forsdyke and 

 Dr. H. J. Plenderleith ; at the Library Association's Conference, at 

 Harrogate, and at the American Library Association's Conference and 

 the International Library Federation's Committee Meeting, both at 

 Chicago, by Mr. A. Esdaile. 



Acquisitions. 



The total number of objects added to the collections in 1933 was 

 409,379, an increase of 39,741 on 1932, and the highest since 1929, 

 when the total was 441,778. 



