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the surface in the Banstead and Burgh Heath districts in Surrey, by 

 Mr. W. Wright, presented by Dr. C. Davies Sherborn ; NeoHthic pottery, 

 implements and other objects from the Long Barrow called Giants' Hills, 

 Skendleby, Lines., together with documents illustrating the excavation 

 by Mr. C. W. Phillips, F.S.A., presented by Mr. W. Gainsford ; microlithic 

 implements and cores from Central India, presented by Major D. H. Gordon ; 

 advanced palaeolithic and later remains from the Libyan desert in the 

 N.W. Sudan, presented by Mr. W. Kennedy Shaw, the leader of the 

 Expedition which collected them. 



Roman Britain was represented by the gift by the Governor and Com- 

 pany of the Bank of England of a collection of finds made from the peat of 

 the Walbrook under the Bank, and by an inscribed stone and others forming 

 part of the sepulchral monument of the Roman procurator Julius 

 Classicianus, of which other stones were already in the Museum, from a 

 bastion of the Roman wall of London, presented by the London Passenger 

 Transport Board. 



Oriental Antiquities and Ethnography. 



When, towards the end of 1934, Mr. George Eumorfopoulos offered his 

 celebrated collection of Chinese antiquities, which has been valued at a 

 quarter of a million, for £100,000, the Trustees felt that, in spite of the 

 recent strain of purchasing the Codex Sinaiticus, they could not decline to 

 make the effort. The purchase was accordingly arranged jointly with 

 the Victoria and Albert Museum ; a portion valued at rather less than 

 half the whole was acquired at once by using all the funds available 

 from the Museum's own reserve and from the bequest of the late Mr. J. R. 

 Vallentin, and by the aid of generous donations from friends, the chief 

 of which were those of Sir Percival David, the National Art-Collections 

 Fund, the Universities' China Committee, the Goldsmiths' Company, and 

 a loan of £10,000 at the nominal interest of 1 per cent, by the Bank of 

 England, since paid off. The balance has been arranged to be paid for in 

 five annual instalments. Meanwhile not even that part of the collection 

 actually acquired was incorporated, in order that a selection might be 

 included in the Exhibition of Chinese Art at Burlington House, and that 

 the whole might at the close of that exhibition be shewn at the Victoria 

 and Albert Museum. 



The Department was in consequence almost wholly dependent on 

 gifts, which fortunately were numerous. The most important were : — 



Ceramics : a Lambeth delft bust of Charles I inscribed E.C., 1679, 

 presented by Sir Bernard Eckstein, Bart. ; a pair of Sevres vases with 

 ' jewel " decoration, 1781, bequeathed by the late Mr. C. B. O. Clarke. 



Prints and Drawings : 120 Indian playing cards in a painted box, 

 Rajput School (17th century), presented by Mr. J. C. French ; a set of 

 eight Japanese woodcut views of Yedo by Hokusai, presented by Mr. O. C. 

 Raphael ; and thirteen Japanese woodcuts by Utamaro and other masters, 

 presented by Mr. R. N. Shaw in succession to his many previous gifts 

 of Japanese woodcuts. 



Ethnography : large series from Italian Somaliland and from the 

 Beni Amer and Hadendoa tribes of the Red Sea Province, Sudan, 

 presented by Major P. H. G. and Miss Powell-Cotton ; stone arrow heads 

 from Bent County, Colorado, presented by the citizens of Las Animas ; 

 and specimen collected by Alfred Russell Wallace between 1848 and 1859 



