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German, Chinese and Central and South American series. Among other 

 gifts may be noted the medal by Gambello of Giovanni BeUini presented by 

 the National Art-Collections Fund from the Oppenheimer Collection, and 

 the medals of Giovanni Gonzaga, Marquis of Mantua, and of the humanist 

 Martinus Philethicus by Lysippus, presented by Mr. C. S. Gulbenkian. 

 Important Greek coins have been presented by Mr. H. C. Hoskier, Miss 

 Purdie, Mr. E. S. G. Robinson and Professor T. O. Mabbott. A fine 

 collection of medieval Enghsh boy- bishops' tokens was presented by 

 Mr. J. B. Caldecott and some rare Chinese decorations by Mrs. H. B. 

 Morse. Purchases have included 30 important Itahan medals from the 

 Oppenheimer Collection, a fine series of Enghsh medieval coins from the 

 Lawrence Collection, while treasure trove from Dorchester, Shapwick and 

 Boyton has filled a number of gaps in the Roman and Enghsh series. 



Oriental Antiquities and Ethnography. 



Approximately three quarters of the amount due for the Eumorfopoulos 

 Collection has now been paid and a corresponding proportion of the 

 collection has been divided between the British Museum, the Victoria and 

 Albert and provincial Museums. The British Museum's share, which is in 

 process of being incorporated, consists of 120 paintings, 298 ceramic and 

 492 objects in metal, jade, etc. 



Other additions to the Oriental Collections include a Chinese celadon 

 dish, beaker, vase and box, an early Chinese bronze lamp holder and a 

 horse, and a 10th century bronze Jain group from the Kenneth Kaj^ 

 Collection ; 81 specimens of Chinese porcelain, etc., bequeathed by Reginald 

 Cory ; a 10th century sandstone group of Brahma and Saras vati given by 

 Prof. R. Newstead, F.R.S. ; and an album of 74 Mughal drawings given by 

 the National Art-CoUections Fund, 



Ceramic additions include 142 specimens of Enghsh (mostly Derby) 

 porcelain given by Mr. F. Howard Paget ; a Chelsea porcelain group of 

 Europa and the Bull given by Messrs. Stoner & Evans ; and a Deht model 

 of a sledge given by Miss I\ Laura Cannan. 



To the Ethnographical Collections have been added : — a large archaeo- 

 logical and ethnographical series from the Gold Coast, given by Capt. R. P. 

 Wild, ; a large ethnographical series from New Zealand given by 

 Major P. H. G. and Miss A. Powell Cotton ; a large series of pottery and 

 baskets from Abyssinia given by Sir Claud F. Russell, K.C.M.G. : an 

 archaeological series from San Jose, British Honduras, given by the 

 Carnegie Institute of Washington and the Behze Estate and Produce Co. ; a 

 large ethnographical collection from New Guinea, New Britain, Andaman 

 Islands, etc., given by Lord Moyne, P.C, D.S.O., together with photo- 

 graphs given by Lady Broughton ; and an ethnographical series from the 

 Eskimos of East Greenland, 



A collection of Araucanian silver from Chile and of other ethnographical 

 objects collected on his world tour as Prince of Wales, was deposited on 

 loan by H.M. King Edward VIII, 



Laboratory. 



Improved apparatus has facihtated the electro-chemical cleaning of 

 corroded metal objects in quantities not hitherto possible ; large finds of 

 coins, for example, have been treated in this way. The cleaning, and in one 



