ACCOUNTS, ESTIMATES, &C. OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM. 13 



The Original Conespondence of Pope witii Dr. Warburton, Ralph Allen, and Hugh 

 Bethel, and the Correspondence of Warburton with Dr. Hurd, the Honourable Charles 

 Yorke, Dr. Middleton, and others. 



Tiie Minute Books of the Court of Directors and other proceedings of the South Sea 

 Company, from 1711 to 1756, with their Charter of Incorporation and other documents. 

 Presented by the Trustees of the late Soutli Sea Company. 



A large Collection of Notes and Drawings of Egyptian Antiquities, Manners and 

 Customs^ Geology, Natural History, &c., made" by ihe line James Burton, JEsq. during a 

 long residence in the country. Presented by his brother, Decimus Burton, Esq. 



A Collection of about 150 Plays, written for representation at Drury Lane Theatre, at the 

 close of the last and commencement of the present century, among which are Pieces by 

 R. B. Sheridan, Charles Lamb, &c. Presented by Coventry Patmore, Esq. 



A series of about sixty original leaden Bulkfi of Official Personages in Sicily, assigned to 

 the period between the fith and i)ih centuries. 



•24. The number of deliveries of Manuscripts to Readers in the Reading Room during the 

 past year amounts to 24,435, and to Artists and others in the rooms ot the Department, to 

 4,212, exclusive of the volumes shown to Visitors on private days. 



Frederic Madden. 



Department OF Oriental, British, and MEDiiEVAi. Antiquities, and 



Ethnography. 



L — Arrangement. 



A statue in the northern vestibule of the Egyptian Galleries has had a glass case placed 

 OVQX it for its l)etter protection. 



187 objects belonging to the Egyptian Collections have been catalogued ; a case-book of 

 Papyri has been completed; progress has been made in the description of the Egyptian 

 Collections for the Synopsis ; and 121 Egyptian objects iiave been mounted, including some 

 -of large dimensiona; 18 objects have been framed and glazed, and one tablet repaired. 



Of the Papyri, 3 more or less complete and several smaller fragments and pieces have 

 been unroUeci ; 42 pieces have been cleaned and mounted ; 32 pieces have been joined ; and 

 29 pieces have been glazed; 2 large Papyri have been framed, glazed, and fixed to the 

 Southern Wall of the North-West Staircase, for public exhibition. 



In the Assyrian basement, the adjoining room, in which Phoenician and other Oriental 

 remains are deposited, has been whitewashed ; and some of the objects, temporarily removed 

 during the process, have been replaced. 



Two sockets of basalt fur gates, found at Mugheir, and inscribed with the names of the 

 Monarch CJrukh and of one of the Abed-Tsin Dynasty, have been mounted on pedestals 

 iind placed in the Assyrian Ante-room. 



An additional table-case for the display of (jbjects hitherto not exhibited, and for the 

 reception of inscribed terra-cotta tablets, has been placed in the Konyunjik Gallery, 



The examination of the Assyrian ivory carvings has been continued with a view to re- 

 joining and repairing the different fragments, and 172 pieces have been cleaned, joined, 

 and mounted. 



(54 engra\ed Assyrian stones and cylinders, and 4fc> clay seals have been mounted; 

 74 moulds have been made of Assyrian cylinders in hard ^tone, and 54 type-impressions taken. 



The engraved cylinders and gems have been chronoloi^ically arranged in a table-case in 

 the Kouyunjik Gallery. 



22 Assyrian objects in bronze, including a shield, have been cleaned and mounted, and 

 26 objects of the same material repaired. 



The whole of the Assyrian sculptures in stone have been identified, and the registration 

 marks renewed ; 5 of the larger Assyrian niscribed cylinders of terra-cotta, and several frag- 

 ments of the same have been repaired and rejonnd, the numeious fragments of which they 

 are composed having been identified. 



Two inscribed cuueiforui stone tablets, giving an account of the execution of the Susian 

 chiefs, have been fixed in the Kouyunjik (lallery near the bas-reliefs to which tiiey belong, 

 and some additional poitions have been joined to th- bas-reliefs themselves. 



583 fragments of bilingual and grammatical Assyrian terra-cotia inscriptions have been 

 temporarily arranged for publication and other purposes. 



112 small pieces of Assyrian teira-colta tablets with inscriptions have b?en cleaned and 

 repaired, and 256 card-boxes made fur holding similar tablet>. 



32 Assyiian inscribed bricks have been arranged m their places in the Assyrian basement 

 room. 



A Hebrew tablet from Aden has been mounted on a stone phnth. 



Three Roman leaden coffins and other antiquities, presented by the Metropolitan Board 

 of Works, have been exhibited m the Britisli Room. 



A block of conglomerate, from the floor of a cuve at Los Eyzies, Dordogne, containing 

 277. B 3 flint 



