ACCOUNTS, &C. OF BRITISH MUSEUM. J I 



A pair of fibulse and a silver chain, found in excavating nrar Chorley, in Lancashire. 



Four enamelled medallions of Edward VI., Mary Queen of England, James V. of 

 Scotland, and Henry Lord Darnley. 



Ciborium, copper basin and two pyx-boxes, specimens of mediscval art. 



Enamelled pax, with figures of St. James and St. Jude. 



Enamelled medallion of the head of our Saviour. 



Two enamelled plates witli figures of Saints, probably the panels of a small shrine. 



Enamelled book-cover, having on it a figuie of St. James. 



Enamelled plate, with figure in relief of our Saviour, between symbols of the Four 

 Evangelists. 



Silver-gilt head of St. Eustace. 



Presents. 



Small terra-cotta slab, having on it, in bas relief, a man conducting a Tibetan dog, dis- 

 covered by Colonel Rawlinson, in 1849, at the Birs-i-Nimrud. From H. R. H. Prince 

 Albert. 



An ebony slip and stud, from a box inscribed with the names of Amenophis IIL, and a 

 queen, his daughter. From the late Marquis of Northampton. 



Leather fragments from a mummy, inscribed with the name of Osorchon IIL From 



Steinmitz, Esq. 



Similar fragments. From J. Kirkpatrick, Esq. 



A marble slab, inscribed with nine lines of Greek, containing an enumeration of the works 

 of Hermogenes, an historical writer. Found at Smyrna, and presented by E. J. Cropp, Esq. 



Marble slab, found at Athens, inscribed with the name of Smichylion, a potter, son of 

 Eualcides. From Alexander Robinson, Esq., r.n. 



Etruscan sarcophagus, in Parian marble, representing combats. From Sir Hugh J. H. 

 Campbell, Bart. 



Jug, with black figures, from South Italy, representing a Satyr and Bacchante, From 

 J, Chambers Hall, Esq. 



Celt, of green stone, found in the Thames at Wandsworth. From G. Hicks, Esq. 



Sword blade, and other bronze objects of the Celtic period, found in the Wandle. From 

 R. W. Mylne, Esq. 



Ivory head of a crozier, found in the coffin of the Abbot Alexander, in Peterborough Ca- 

 thedral. From W. Twopeny, Esq. 



Mediaeval key found at Great Chart. From W. D. Norton, Esq. 



Four stamps, made for America before the War of Independence. From W. Brown, 

 Esq., M.p. 



Collection of Esquimaux and other instruments used on the North-West Coast of Ame- 

 rica. From Lieut. Hall, r. n. 



A brick from the Castle of Woosung. From Sir Everard Home, Bart., r.n. 



Sacrificial Fetish basket, from Ashantee. Presented by Lieut. Forbes, r.n. 



A dress from Borneo. From Sir James Brooke, Bart., Rajah of Sarawak. 



A very large Collection of objects, collected on the Coast of New Guinea and the Louieiade 

 Islands, by the late Capt. Owen Stanley, r.n. From his Mother, Mrs. Stanley. 



Figure from the grave of a New Zealand Chief. From E. Hodgson, Esq. 



Water-bottle, from the Fiji Islands. From Sir Everard Home, Bart., r.n. 



Coins and Medals acquired during the Year; 



Gold. 

 18 - 



Silver. 

 • - 160 - 



Copper. 

 - 480 



46 - 



- 21 - 



- 38 



45 - 



• - 621 - 



- 1,502 



54 - 



• - 493 - 

 1,295 



. - 47 



163 



2,067 = 3,525 



Greek 

 Roman - 

 Oriental 

 Modern - 



Among the Greek Coins, remarkable for rarity and interest, may be pointed out — 



A silver decadrachm of Alexander the Great, from the Collection of Col. Rawlinson, being 

 the first ever discovered. 



Tetradrachm of Seleucus I. of Syria, with his portrait. 



Tetradrachm of Demetrius Soter, and his Queen Laodice, whose portrait is known only 

 from this coin. 



Two tetradrachms of Antiochus VIII. of Syria, having on the reverse a tomb, supposed 

 to be that of Sardanapalus. 



The Bactrian series has been enriched by a very rare tetradrachm of Antimachus, with 

 his portrait. 



A drachm of Euthydemus ; of a new type. 



Tetradrachm of Characene, bearing a date. 



Tetradrachm of Hippostratus; inline preservation, and of the highest rarity. 



Fine silver Coins of Azilises and of Azes. 



Fine copper Coins of Diomedes, Lysias and Philoxenus. 



68. C A large 



