ACCOtJNTS, ESTIMATES, &C. OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM. 1,5 



' Seal of calcedony, with four lines of Phoenician, being the signet of a person named 

 Abdalla, said to have been found at Dundrum in Ireland. 



British and MedicBval. — A small collection of stone and bronze Weapons found in the 

 Thames, presented by John Frost, Esq. 



An Urn, and three bone Implements, found near Cawdor Castle, N.B., and an enamelled 

 'Roman fibula found in Wales, presented by the Earl Cawdor. 



Pair of massive bronze Armlets, found at Liws, in Hampshire. 



A bronze Celt from Brittany, presented by the E,ev. E. L. Barnwell. 



A small collection of stone and bronze Implements Irom Westphalia and the Kingdom 

 of Hanover, illustrative of the early British periods, presented by A. W. Franks, Esq. 



An ancient British Urn, found on Kingston Hill, Surrey, presented by H.R.H. the Duke 

 of Cambridge. 



A larue and remarkable bronze Caldron, found in the Thames. 



An iron Weapon of the late Celtic period, fnund at Bourton-on-the-Water, Gloucester- 

 shire, presented by F. J. Wood, Esq. 



Pair of bronze Horse-bits, and other Ornaments of the late Celtic period, found on 

 Hao-bourn-hill, Berkshire, presented by Thomas Evans, Esq., m.d. 



Homan pio- of Lead, with the stamp of the Emperor Nero, found at Siockbridge, Hamp- 

 shire. 



Roman Water-pipes, found near Chichester, presented by H. W. Freeland, Esq., m.p. 



A Lunate Ornament, formed of boar's tusks, and a glass Funnel, found in excavating a 

 Roman villa at North Wraxhall, Wiltshire, presented by G. Poulett Scrope, Esq., m.p. 



A large granite Slali, with two sets of inscriptions, appaiently to the same purport, one 

 in Roman letters, the otiier in the Ogham character, found at Fardell, Devonshire, and pre- 

 sented by Captain Pode. 



Stone Slab, on which is engraved the figure of a bull, found at Burgh Head, in Scotland 

 (Archeeologia xvi., pi. Ixxj.), presented by James de Carle Sovverby, Esq., f.l.s. 



Brass Seal of the official of the Archdeaconry of Lincoln, and coral Seal of the 14th 

 centurv, both presented by Edmund Waterton, Esq., f.s.a. ; also a brass Seal of the 

 officialof the Dean of the Arches, presented by G. G. Francis, Esq., f.s.a. 



Snuft'-box, with the arms of Sir Francis Drake, presented by Dr. Bigsby. ^ 



Carved ivory Triptych of English workmanshi|), and of the fourteenth century, bearing 

 the arms of John Grandison, Bishop of Exeter, 1327-1369, from the Soltikoff Collection ; 

 also a leaf of a Diptych of similar workmanship, and which has had on it the same arms, 

 from the Fould Collection. 



Kthnozraphy. — A collection of objects from Vancouver's Island and British Columbia, 

 transmitfed to the Foreign Office by Colonel Hawkins, and presented by theRightHon. the 

 Earl Russell. 



Twenty-three terracotta Heads excavated in Peshawur, remarkable specimens of early 

 Indian iirt. 



Four ancient statues of Hindhu Divinities from Java, two of them presented by Colonel 

 H. J. Daniell, and the others by Charles Millett, Esq. 



Ancient stone seat from Mount Hoja, Ecuador, presented by G. C. Bruce, Esq. 



Chmese bronze Vase, of the period of Seuentih, a.d. 1424-34, and two bionze Door- 

 plates, brought from the Yuen-Ming- Yuen Palace, Pekin; presented by Dr. Daniel. 



Samuel Birch, 



Department of Greek and Roman Antiquities. 



I. — Arrangement. 



The sculptures and architectural marbles from the Mausoleum have been provisionally 

 arranged; the whole of the friigments have been carefully re-examined with a view to their 

 identification, and upwards of 30 fragments have l)een rejoined. 



Five Torsos, five Busts, and five architectural Marbles in this Collection have been 

 mounted on plintlis- 



The glass shed under the c(,lonnade, east of the principal entrance, has been extended 

 from the fouib-west angle to the end of the colonnade, and the collection of Sculptures 

 recently received from Cyrene has been |>rovision<illy anangtd there. 



Thirty-one statues, three busts, and one rehef from this Collection have been repaired; 

 eleven statues have been mounted on plinths. 



The sarcophagi from Crete, and the marbles presented by the Earl of Aberdeen have 

 been temporarily placed in the Sepulchral Basement Room. 



A portion of the'Basement under the North Libiary has been fitted for the provisional 

 reception of the entire collection of Greek Inscriptions. To this room have been removed 

 the Inscriptions from Calymnos, Cnidus, Budruni, and other places, recentlj placed in the 

 shed to the east of ihe principal entrance, and also the Inscriptions from the Phigaleian 

 Room. 



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