ACCOUNTS, &C., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM. 



Collections of ancient beads from Egypt, Denmark, and Ireland. 



A large enamelled bowl of Venetian glass, and foiir specimens of Chinese glass. 



_ A small sepulchral cist of tufa from Cologne in which was discovered the remarkable 

 disc of Christian glass, with gilt subjects, in the Slade Collection (No. 317), has been 

 presented by M. Edouard Herstatt, of Cologne. 



IV, — Christy Collection. 



The following progress has been made in arranging and augmenting this collection, 

 which remains at 103, Victoria-street, Westminster. 



In Room I. three new cases have been added, containing in all 39 square feet; in one 

 of them has been placed the collection of flint implements from Yorkshire, chiefly pre- 

 sented by Thomas Fox, Esq., of Bridlington, and of which 453 specimens have been 

 mounted on tablets ; in another have been arranged other English objects of stone ; and 

 in the third, similar objects from various parts of Africa, of which 159 have been mounted 

 on tablets. A series of 198 selected flint implements from the French caves has been 

 mounted on tablets. 



In Room VI., a new case, containing 38 square feet, has been added for the objects 

 presented by Major E. B. bladen, and obtained by him in the expedition from Bhamo to 

 Yunnan in China. 



Eight hundred additional slips have been prepared for the registration catalogue, and 

 about 20 plates of woodcuts for the printed catalogue have been completed. 



The following donations have been received by the Christy Trustees, and by them 

 transferred to the Trustees of the British Museum: — 



1. Prelustoric Antiquities of Europe, Asia, and Africa. — Flint implements found in 

 the drift beds of various parts of England and France ; presented by Edwin A. Bernays, 

 Esq., John Evans, Esq., f.r.s., f.s.a.. Colonel A Lane Fox, v.p.s.a., A. W. Franks, 

 Esq., V.P.S.A., the Rev. "W. Greenwell, f.s.a., F. C. J. Spurrell, Esq., f.g.s., and Dr. 

 Ogier Ward. 



A series of flint implements found with the remains of the Mammoth and other extinct 

 animals in the caves of the valley of the Lesse, Belgium, in the course of excavations 

 made by the Belgian Government ; presented by the Royal Museum of Natural History, 

 Brussels. 



Bone objects discovered by the late Rev. W. S. King, f.s.a., in the cave of Aurignac, 

 Hautes Pyrenees, France ; presented by Mrs. W. S. King. 



Flint flakes, found by the donors under the submarine forests at Porlock Wear and 

 Minehead, Somerset; jjresented by W. Boyd Dawkins, Esq., r.K.s., and the Rev. H. H. 

 Winwood, F.G.S. 



Flint implements from Suffolk, jiresented by the Rev. Greville Chester, John Evans, 

 Esq., Rev. W. Greenwell, Mr. H. R. Maynard, and the Rev. W. Weller Foley. 



Two stone celts, wooden paddle and club, fragments of pottery, etc., found in draining 

 Ehenside Tarn, Cumberland ; presented by Mrs. Stanley Pinhorne ; a wooden handle 

 for a stone celt, and part of a wooden club, found in the same tarn ; presented by R. D. 

 Darbishire, Esq., F.G S. 



Cast of a remarkable flint implement from the Isle of Wight, presented by Hodder 

 M. Westropp^ Esq. ; flint scraper from Walthamstow, Essex, presented by Henry 

 H. Woodward, Esq., f.g.s. ; and flint implements from Yorkshire, presented by the 

 Rev. W. Greenwell. 



Stone implements of the neolithic period found in HoUand, Germany, Denmark, Italy, 

 Egypt, and Japan ; presented by A. W. Franks, Esq. 



Fragments of pottery from the Hunebedden of Drenthe, Holland, presented by Mi'. 

 W. Pleyte, of Leyden ; and part of a pierced axe from Emsbiiren, Hanover, presented 

 by Pastor Deitering, of that place. 



Celts of jade, and other materials, obtained in the province of Yunnan, South Western 

 China, by the donor, Major E. B. Sladen; cores and flakes from Jubbulpore, Central 

 India; presented by the Director of the Indian Museum, Calcutta; and worked flint flake 

 from Tel-el-Yahoudeyeh, Egypt ; presented by the Rev. Greville Chester. 



Stone celts from the Gold Coast, presented by Andrew Swanzy, Esq. ; fragments of 

 pottery from the Cape of Good Hope, presented by Captain Henry Thurburn ; and 

 rude stone implements from Southern Africa, presented by Edgar L. Layard, Esq., 

 Peter Sutherland, Esq., M.D., and Professor T. Rupert Jones, f.g.s. 



2. Ethmgraphy of Africa. — Nubian spears, presented by C Drury Fortnum, Esq., 

 F.S.A., A. "W. Franks, Esq., and John Holmes, Esq.; pipes from Egypt and West 

 Africa, presented by William Bragge, Esq., f.s.a. 



Pottery from West Africa, presented by Walter Bagshawe, Esq. ; wooden figure from 

 Benin, presented by John J. Bagshawe, Esq. ; quirer of poisoned arrows from W est 

 Africa, presentea by Andrew Swanzy, Esq., and carved cup and two horns of ivory, 

 probably made on the West Coast of Africa in the 16th century ; presented by A. W. 

 Franks Esq. 



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