ACCOUNTS, &C. OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM. 2 1 



Three leaden medals of Academies at Stockholm, given as jetons de presence. By 

 Professor Nilsson. 



Six silver and eighteen copper tokens, chiefly of the time of the First Republic By 

 M. Geslin. I J 



A copper Ostrogothic coin, struck in Rome. By the Rev. J. H. Hopkins. 



A gold Sceatta, v?ith a Runic inscription. By Thomas Sebastian Bazley, Esq. 



Three gold Indian coins of Tlpperah. By the Rajah of Tipperah. 



Seven English XVIIth century tokens, and four leaden Roman seals found at Felix- 

 stowe. By Charles Roach Smith, Esq. 



A bronze marriage jubilee-medal of John Henry Schroder. By the Senate of 

 Hamburg. 



Eight copper English tokens. By E. Widrington Byrne, Esq. 



A gold noble of Edward III. By Sheriff Sir James Vallentin. 



Eight copper English tradesmen's tokens. By the Rev. William Allan. 



A bronze medal of Taylor Combe, Esq., formerly Keeper of the Antiquities in the British 

 Museum. By Dr. J. E. Gray, F.R.S. 



A email copper coin of Constantius Csesar. By Major -General G. F. Boileau, 



K.E., F.B.S. 



Two copper coins of Constantino the Great, four of Constantino, jun., and five of 

 Licinius. By H. Warry, Esq. 



Eight mediaeval Bracteates of France, Germany, and Switzerland. Bv J. F. W. De 

 Salis, Esq. 



An Oriental gold coin of the Aghlabites. By Oscar Browning, Esq. 



A bronze medal, commemorating the two hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the Society 

 of Remonstrants at Rotterdam. By Sir R. Frazer Turing. 



A medallion of their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Hesse. By their 

 Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess. 



A bronze medal commemorating the marriage of the Duke of Brabant. By M. de 

 Fosselaert, Charge d' Affaires de Belgique. 



A silver coin of Henning Scharfenberg, Archbishop of Riga, a.d. 1424-48. By Henry 

 Webb, Esq. 



A bronze medal struck for Canada, as " The Dominion," a.d. "1867. By J. S. and A. B. 

 Wyon, Esqrs. 



A bronze medal, commemorating the uncovering of the Luther Memorial at Worms, 

 in 1868. By the Right Hon. the Earl of Enniskillen. 



A modern cast of a rare medal of Queen Mary. By A. W. Franks, Esq. 



The number of visitors to the Medal Room during the past year has been 1,948. 

 The number of visitors to the Ornament Room, in which the gold and silver orna- 

 ments from the Blacas Collection, are exhibited, during the past year has been 7,687. 



W. S. IV. Vaux. 



Departments of Natural History. 



The number of specimens added to the Natural History Departments in the year 1869 

 is 17,090. Of these 8,979 have been registered in the Department of Zoology, 7,226 

 in the Department of Geology, 885 in the Department of Mineralogy. 



The stuffed and mounted specimens of the class Mammalia are in a state of preservation ; 

 those which, from their large size or the want of space in the glazed cabinets, stand on 

 the floor and are suspended to the walls of the Mammalian Gallery, have received con- 

 tinuous care and attention to prevent or reduce the effects of exposure. 



The unstuffed skins of the Mammalia are in a state of preservation applicable to the 

 purposes of scientific examination and comparison, and many of them in a state fit for 

 future preparation and exhibition. 



Of the class Aves, a much larger proportion of the skins are stuffed and mounted, and 

 are exhibited in systematic order and sequence. These are in good state of preservation, 

 are preserved in glazed cabinets, where, however, from the limitation of space, they 

 are more crowded than is consistent with the desirable facility of study and comparison, 

 or with easy access for detailed examination of the specimens. The skeletons of Birds 

 which are mounted and placed in the cabinets are in good condition ; but this aid to the 

 work of the student in Ornithology is necessarily limited for want of sjjace. 



The collection of unstuffed and unmounted Bird-skins preserved in boxes and cup- 

 boards in the basement vaults is in a state of preservation available for the purposes of 

 study and comparison of characters, but, in a certain proportion, not so readily accessible 

 for such uses as students desire ; the locality available for safe storage, and assigned to 

 the class Aves, is now somewhat crowded. 



The proportion of the collection of the Reptilia, stuffed, mounted, and preserved in 

 systematic arrangement, filling, so displayed, glazed cabinets allotted to that class, is in a 

 good state of preservation. The larger specimens, suspended above tiie cabinets, have 

 been maintained in a state of preservation, without more deterioration than is inevitable 

 from such exposure. 



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