ACCOUNTS, ESTIIMATES, <ScC. OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM. 



1 1. — A cquisilions. 



Ti}e following table shows the number and classification of the coins and medals pro- 

 cured during the year 1862 : — 





Gold. 



Silver. 



Copper. 



Total. 







Gieek - _ - - 



4 



114 



696 



814 



Roman - - - - 



29 



45 



26 



100 



Mediaeval and Modern 



70 



268 



215 



553 



Oriental - - - - 



18 



334 



39 



391 



Total - - - 



121 



761 



976 



1,8^8 



Of these Acquisitions, the following have been received as presents: — 



A coin of Wratislaw, King of Bohemia, ad., 1086-91, from the Rev. A. H. Wratislaw. 



A collection of eleven Swiss coins and of 57 English tokens, from the Earl of Enuiskillen.. 



Six English tokens and two French coins, from ihe Rev. Temple Frere. 



A token of Benjamin Nightingale, Esq., from Mrs. Nightingale. 



Five Oriental silver coins, from M. Frederic Soret. 



A coin of Paderborn and of Pope Pius IX., from Mr. Eastwood. 



A very rare Byzantine coin of Michael Ducas and Maria, from Madame Trenefidi. 



A grodt of Henry IV., V., or VI., found at Bermondsey, from J. C. Buckler, esq. 



Two medals of the International Exhibition, from Thomas Watts, esq. 



Eight Irish tokens, from A. W. Franks, esq. 



Two Dano-Irish pennies, from R. Penrose, esq. 



An Impeiial Greek coin of Vespasian, struck at Cyprus, from E. H. Bunbury, esq. 



Two florin piece, and a three and a half gulden piece, from the Bavarian Govejnment. 



A sceatta, from Dr. Dalton. 



Six modern Dutch East India coins, from Professor Millies, of Leyden. 



A medal of the Russian engraver, M. Outken, from John Pye, Ksq. 



Five Saxon coins, from the Lord Digby. 



Six modern Indian coins, procured at Lucknow, from P. H. Crank, Esq. 



A bronze medal of M. Frederic Soret, and a token of M. A. Durand, from M. A.. 

 Durand. 



A groat of Henry IV., V. or Vf., struck at Calais, from Thomas Lynch, Esq. 



Five gold, 24 silver, and eight copper coins, from the Brazilian Government. 



The following coins may be mentioned as remarkable additions to the Cabinets of the 

 Museum : — 



In the Greek Series: a Syracusan medallion; a silver coin of Cyprus; a very small 

 silver coin of Athens; an unique and very early silver coin of Eretria ; an unique stater of 

 Bithynia ; a copper ccin of Niniva Claudiopolis; a silver coin of Alexander jEgus, struck 

 in Egypt, and of extreme raiity ; se\eral important coins of tlie Ptolemies; and a large 

 number of fine specimens of the Alexandrian coinage under the Romans, 



In the Roman Series: a very rare solidus of Constantine the Great; a silver coin of 

 Pompey, restored by Trajan; a silver coin of Carausius, in fine preservation; a rare copper 

 coin of the same ruler ; and an aureus of Fiavius Severus. 



In the Byzantine Series : a very rare gold coin of Heraclius and his eldest son. 



In the Mediaeval and Modern Series: 13 coins of the rare class of Visigothic Kings of 

 bpam. 



A coin of Henry Duke of Swabia, struck at Zurich, and a pattern for a five franc piece of 

 Alexander Berthier, Prince of Neufchatel. 



Four gold pieces, intended as patterns for the coinage of Melbourne in Australia ; struck. 

 in 1853. 



1,344 persons have visited the collections in the Medal Room during the past year. 



W. S. W. Vaux. 



Departments op Natural History, 



At the period when the Natural History had assigned to it its share of exhibition space 

 in the present building, a certain pioportion of the specimens of each department had to be 

 preserved in stoie. 



The proportion of these specimens was greatest in the Department of Zoology ; and the 



accumulation 



