BRITISH MUSEUM 11 



Oriental Ayitiquities and Ethnographical Collections. 



The collection of Oriental Ceramics has been enriched by a Chinese 

 pottery group of the Han Dynasty, presented by a body of subscribers ; 

 an important pottery vase and cover of the Han Dynasty, presented by 

 Mr. 0. C. Raphael ; a collection of Chinese porcelain and fragments 

 from Sir Percival David ; a bequest by Miss E. R. Anderson of Chinese 

 porcelain and pottery ; and by many other gifts. A collection of 821 

 Arab glass weights and bottle stamps was presented by Mrs. Llewellyn 

 PhilKps, Chinese paintings by Mr. A. W. Bahr and Mrs. Alfred 

 Morrison, and Japanese woodcuts by Mrs. Garraway Rice and Mrs. 

 Selwyn Image. 



Tributes in honour of Mr. Laurence Binyon included two Japanese 

 screens and Persian and Rajput paintings, while Mr. Binyon himself 

 presented two Japanese screens and another Rajput painting. 



Mr. W. J. Andrews gave an inscribed Arab bronze bowl and Sir 

 Charles Bell, K.C.I.E., a series of objects from Tibet, Bhutan and 

 China. A Chinese bronze mirror, T'ang Dynasty, was purchased 

 from the Valleiitin Fund ; The Katikiro of Uganda presented an 

 ethnographical series from the BaNyoro tribe, Uganda ; and the late 

 Mr. W. L. S. Loat bequeathed a collection of ethnographical objects. 



A large totem pole (the " Eagle Beaver " totem pole) was obtained 

 from British Columbia, and the Christy Trustees included in their 

 numerous gifts an English fourteenth century bronze ewer which had 

 become a war fetish of the Ashantis, and an English silver bowl with 

 the hall mark of 1674, showing repeated repairs by native crafts- 

 men, both taken from the Ashantis during the war with that nation. 



Coins and Medals. 



The Rogers collection of Greek Coins of Thessaly, comprising 902 

 coins in fine condition, 281 Roman silver coins from the Selsey hoard, 

 and 53 coins from the Talland Treasure Trove, were acquired. 



The Executors of the late Lionel Fletcher presented, in accordance 

 with his wish, his collection of over 1,200 Irish eighteenth century 

 Tokens ; seventy-two Italian Renaissance medals were bought at the 

 Whitcombe Green sale ; and 111 medieval Muhammadan coins from 

 the Miles collection were also acquired. 



Research Laboratory. 



The antiquities submitted for treatment and the specialised problems 

 for solution showed no reduction in number. 



Remarkable results were obtained in the preservation and recondi- 

 tioning of antiquities, such as with a Viking sword from the National 

 Museum of Ireland, and with an Egyptian bronze statuette. 



Advances were made in various microscopic methods of investigation, 

 a field fruitful in evidence as to the technique of manufacture as well 

 as sometimes to the age of objects, and on more than one occasion 

 during the year forgeries were detected. 



The general assistance to the Departments of the Museum was 

 continued and an increased number of the technical staff of this and 

 other Museums underwent a course of training. 



GEORGE HILL, 

 1 April, 1934. Director and Principal Librarian. 



