l8 ACCOUNTS, &C. OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM. 



A large series of Danish objects of the stone period, chiefly from the collection of 

 M. J. J. A. Worsaae, including a very large leaf-shaped knife or dagger, and two bone 

 spear-heads edged with flints ; a set of stone celts from Greece, where they are known 

 as aarpoTTtXiKia ; a series of flint arrow-heads and stone celts from Japan, and specimens 

 from Spain, France, and Burmah ; from A. "W. Franks, Esq. 



Breccia, containing bones and pottery found in St. Michael's Cave, Gibraltar ; from 

 Captain Frederic Brome. 



Pottery, and implements of bone and stone, discovered in the caves at Cueva Lobrega, 

 Old Castile, Spain, in excavations made at the expense of the donors, under the direction 

 of M. Louis Lartet ; from the executors of the late Henry Christy, Esq. 



Flint flakes from Laghouat, Algeria ; from J. "W. Flower, Esq., f.g.s. 



Stone implements found at the Cape of Good Hope ; from C. J. Busk, Esq., and 

 Dr. Langham Dale. 



An iron weapon from the Madras Presidency ; from the Director of the Royal Gardens 

 at Kew. 



A nose-ring from Bhotan ; from Captain John Hamilton, 



Arrowheads from the Kurile Islands, and box carved out of mammoth ivory ; from 

 William Bragge, Esq. 



A comb carved by the Tongouse of Eastern Siberia, out of mammoth ivory ; froa 

 Ronald Bridgett, Esq., f.e.gs. 



A trilho, or threshing machine, set with stones, still used in the Island of Madeira ; from 

 John Evans, Esq., f.e.s. 



An elegant bottle of Egyptian earthenware ; from John Henderson, Esq., f.s.a. 



A club from Abyssinia; from Lieutenant Shewell, through R. R. Holmes, Esq. 



A collection of weapons, &c., used by the natives of the Gaboon and its neighbourhood ; 

 from A. W. Franks, Esq. 



Specimens of hats and leather work of various kinds, from the West coast of Africa ; 

 from George Offor, Esq. 



A singular iron chopper, from the West Coast of Africa ; from Sir John Lubbock, Bart., 



l!'.K.S. 



An executioner's axe and a sword from Dahomey, obtained by Captain Burton, and 

 other African weapons ; from William Bragge, Esq. 



Musical instrument given by the daughter of the King of Congo to Captain (now 

 Admiral Sir) Rodney Mundy ; from Octavius Morgan, Esq., m.p. 



Two wooden objects from Angola ; from Mr. Thomas Foster. 



A Basuto knife ; from Arthur J. Lewis, Esq. 



A child's assagai, a poison grub from South Africa, and various other specimens ; from 

 the Rev. J, G. Wood. 



Drawing of figures of men and animals painted in a Bushman's cave, made by Captain 

 Moncrieff ; from General J. H. Lefroy, E.A., f.r.s. 



Two paddles (rapa) used in dancing, and an ear ornament from Easter Island, obtained 

 and presented by Lieutenant M. J. Harrison, r.n., of H.M.S. " Topaze." 



Clubs from the Fiji and other islands in the South Pacific; from C. S. Perceval, Esq., ll.d. 



Three very fine paddles, from New Zealand, and a large New Caledonian axe of jade ; 

 from William Bragge, Esq. 



Hair of a native bound with fibre into narrow ringlets, from Aneitum, New Hebrides ; 

 from Admiral Sir H. M. Denham, k.c.b. 



A shell collar from Melanesia ; from M. Luders, of Hamburg. 



An armlet made of human bones, a comb, and a wooden spatula for betel-chewing, 

 obtained on the south-east coast of New Guinea, and presented by Professor T. 

 Huxley, F.E.S. 



A womera and a stone axe in wooden handle, from South Australia ; from James 

 Dixon, Esq., F.E.C.S. 



Stone implements, from Greenland ; from M. C. L. Stelnhauer, of Copenhagen. 



A flint arrow-head, from Canada West ; from Sir Charles Anderson, Bart. 



Stone implements found near Toronto, a remarkable bolas, and a red jasper figure from 

 Mexico ; from William Bragge, Esq. 



A large series of shell imj^lements, stone celts, &c., from Barbadoes ; from the Rev. 

 Greville J. Chester. 



Stone implements from St. Vincent, West Indies, and of rare form, from Mexico, 

 also stone and shell implements from Mounds in Florida ; from A. W. Franks, Esq. 



A stone pounder, found in a cave on the Island of St. Domingo, and tortoiseshell rings 

 from the South Seas ; from W. J. Bernhard Smith, Esq. 



A very curious axe, formed of a pebble lashed on to the end of a stick, still in 

 use among the Aymara Indians, on the shores of Lake Titicaca, Peru; from F. J. 

 Stevenson, Esq. 



A fine collection of antiquities of various kinds, found with mummies, near Arica, Peru, 

 laid bare by the great wave that succeeded the earthquake of 13 August 1868 ; obtained 

 and presented by William Drysdale Tennant, Esq., r.n., H.M.S. " Malacca." 



In addition to the donations above noticed, the Collection has been considerably 

 increased by exchanges with the Royal Ethnographical Museum at Leyden, the Eth- 

 nographical Museum at Copenhagen, the Department of Science and Art at South 



Kensington, 



