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(4.) Many vases with figures or flowers painted on them. 



Coins: Silver and Potin. — (1.) Messene. — Head of Proserpine. R. Jupiter hurling 

 thunderbolt. 



(2.) Coresia. — Bunch of grapes. R. Quadratum incusum. 



(3.) Elis. — Eagle flying, holding serpent in talons. R. Wheel in incuse triangle. 

 (4.) Elis. — Head of Jupiter. R. Eagle's head. 

 (5.) Elis. — Head of Jupiter. R. Eagle; thunderbolt; wreath. 



(6.) Attambilus II., King of Characene. Published, Lenormant, "Revue Numismatique," 

 N. S. IX., pn. 191, 192. 



(7.) Silver Athenian didrachm. 



Objects in Lead. — Eight slingbolts, inscribed wiih names, and published by Vischer or 

 Mustoxidi in the works already referred to; weights marked with letters ; astragali. 



Miscellaneous Antiquities. — A stone, the size of a pigeon's egg, which, when held in the 

 Hght, showed three colours, blue, green, and grey ; many pearls from necklaces; a piece 

 of coral, pierced for suspension, having on either side a wolfs face ; an iron dagger with a 

 bone handle studded with silver; a sword with an iron blade, and on the handle the face 

 of an animal ; hair-pins of bone. 



For further and fuller information respecting the Woodhouse bequest, Mr. Newton would 

 beg to refer lo the " Report of his Proceedings at Corfu relative to Objects missing from 

 the Woodhouse Collection," which was submitted to the Trustees on the 11th of October 

 last, and to the subsequent correspondence with the Foreign Office. 



C. T. Newton. 



With respect to the Woodhouse bequest, it is to be observed that Mr. Saunders, Her 

 Majesty's Consul General at Corfu, had no authority, either under the terms of the gift, or 

 from the Trustees of the British Museum, to make any selection from the antiquities in 

 question, or any disposition thereof beyond that of forwarding them to the British Museum. 

 The circuuistances connected with this bequest are at present under discussion, and form the 

 subject of a correspondence between the Trustees ami the Foreign Office. 



J. Winter Jones, Principal Librariaa. 



Department of British and Medieval Antiquities and Ethnography. 



Although the Collections of British and Mediaeval Antiquities and Ethnography were 

 not formed into a separate department until the 10th of March 1866, it has been thought 

 more convenient to treat of them in this report as though they had been separated from 

 the Oriental Antiquities from the commencement of the year. 



I. — Arrangement, 



In the British and MediaBval Room an additional table case iias been received, and, 

 together with the companion case received at the close of the preceding year, has been 

 fitted up with desks and hned with paper. The collection of matrices of seals has been 

 arranged in these cases. 



The altering ot" the cases in the room, to exclude dust and render them more secure, has 

 been commenced ; one table case has been thus altered, the fittings replaced, and the 

 case re-papered. 



A Roman tomb, presented by Her Majesty, has been placed in one corner of the room. 



In the Ethnographical Room the re-arrangement of the Mexican Antiquities has been 

 completed, though rendered more difficult by considerable additions to the Collection. 

 The arrangement of the North American Collections has been commenced, preparatory to 

 which many of the objects in the older collections have been identified. 



A table case has been removed to this room from the Department of Greek and Roman 

 Antiquities, and filled with some of the choicer specimens from India, China, and New 

 Zealand. To make room for this case a large Chinese bell has been removed to the landing 

 of the btaircase, and a model of an Indian car has been placed in the basement, to which 

 has also been removed a model representing groups of Thugs. 



In the Anglo-Roman Gallery three monoliths with Ogham inscriptions have been erected 

 on stone pedestals, jind many of the other sculptures re-arranged. 



Fourteen objects have been placed on stone or wooden pedestals ; 41 matrices of seals 

 have been mounted with impressions at their sides ; a collection of antiquities from caves in 

 Yorkshire has been mounted on a wooden board; and a large number of Mexican vases 

 have been repaired. 



1,734 xAnt'.quities have been registered, including all the acquisitions of the year, ex- 

 cepting those in the Christy and Blacas Collections ; and 189 labels have been added. 



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