ACCOUxVTS, ESTIMATES, &C. OF THE BRITISH MUSEUiM. 27 



Specimens of two extinct Mosses found with reindeer remains at Schussenreid, Wurtem- 

 berg ; from M. Steudel. 



Photographs from sculptured objects in his collection found in the Caves of Dordogne; 

 from the Marquis de Vibraye. 



A flint core from Scinde ; from Professor Rupert Jones, f.g.s. 



Stone implements from England, Ireland, France, Denmark, Sweden, and Greenland ; 

 a set of casts of stone implements from Russia ; a series of models of Javenese weapons 

 and tools ; and a number of ethnographical specimens from Central Africa, Assam, and 

 the Pacific ; from A. W. Franks, Esq., r.s.A. 



A flint implement from Cissbury, Sussex, and an iron weapon from the Neam Neam 

 tribe of Central Africa; from Lieut. Colonel Augustus Lane Fox, f.s.a. 



A stone celt from Sussex, another from Ireland, and a fine Peruvian Vase ; from 

 WUliam Tite, Esq., M.p. 



Four bone or horn axes found in the Thames, near Brentford ; from Thomas Layton, 

 Esq., jun, 



A flint dagger from the county of Cavan ; from Alexander Nesbitt, Esq., f.s.a. 



Five stone implements found in Hungary ; frois Dr. Florian Romer, of Pesth. 



Flint flakes from Charbonnieres, Saone et Loire, and a specimen of pottery like those 

 found in the Italian lakes and still made in the district of Parma ; from ]M. Gabriel de 

 Mortillet, of Paris. 



Four specimens of pottery still made in the Pyrenees, and very similar to vases of the 

 stone period in form and fabric ; from M. Edouard Lartet, of Paris. 



A large collection of weapons, ornaments, and other objects, chiefly obtained from the 

 wild tribes of the Soudan, and forming part of the Egyptian exhibition at Paris ; from 

 His Highness the Viceroy of Egypt. 



Two shields from East Africa, one of the Dankali tribe, the other of the Somali ; from 

 M. Charles Schefer, of Paris. 



Female aprons and ornaments for the hair, from Central Africa ; from George Witt, 

 Esq., F.K.s. 



A Kafir snuff spoon and ear ornament ; from Miss Colenso. 



A carved wooden spoon from Cape Coast Castle ; from Lieutenant B. V. Layard, 3rd 

 West India Regiment. 



A dagger or knife, from Western Africa ; from John Henderson, Esq., f. s. a. 



A Malay Kris, in its sheath ; from Felix Slade, Esq., f.s.a. 



Obsidian lance head found near the river San Joaquim, California ; from M. Charles 

 L. Steinhauer, keeper of the Ethnographical Museum at Copenhagen. 



A stone axe from Trinidad, some fragments of pottery, and a pipe from Lake Simcoe, 

 Canada West ; from Sir Walter C. Trevelyan, Bart. 



Pipe and bone implements from Simcoe, Canada West ; from W. Boyd Dawkins, Esq. 



A few additions have likewise been obtained by exchange, and some still more Im- 

 portant acquisitions made by purchase out of the Christy Fund, among which the following 

 may be specified : — 



A bronze disk or buckler, with a monstrous head in relief, from Ecuador. 



A Turkish threshing machine set with chipped flints, and possibly explaining some 

 archasologlcal phenomena. Six spears of various kinds from Arabia. 



Weapons and implements of the Yakout and other Tartar races of Siberia, including 

 an ivory model of a village. 



Stone implements and clubs from New South Wales. 



All these objects were obtained at the Universal Exhibition In Paris. 



The Christy Collection is only visible on Fridays, by tickets issued at the British 

 Museum ; but notwithstanding these restrictions there have been 708 visitors. 



Augustus W, Franks. 



Department of C-uns and Medals. 

 I. Arrangement. 



1. Greek Series: — 



1,152 coins, being those of the Woodhouse collection, 488 coins from the Blacas collec- 

 tion, and 173 miscellaneous Greek coins have been registered. 



724 coins of the Woodhouse collection, 33 coins of the Ptolemies, and 25 miscellaneous 

 coins of the Blacas collection have been Incorporated with the general collection. 



99 Ms grave of Italy have been arranged, with appropriate descriptive cards. 



592 Autonomous coins of Hispania, 133 of Gallia, 201 of Magna Gracia, and 10 of 

 the Achaean League have been arranged, Avith new descriptive cards where necessary. 



488 miscellaneous coins of all clas^ses, of the Blacas collection, have been arranged, 

 with appropriate descriptive cards. 



185 miscellaneous Greek coins have been carefully examined, and those required for 

 the National collection have been set aside. 



101 Celtlberian titles have been written for different coins of the Hispano-Greek 

 series. 



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