22 ACCOUNTS, &C., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM. 



III. — The following have been presented to the Trustees : — 



A Greek Imperial coin of Severus Alexander, struck at Priene. By Mrs. Forbes, of 

 Scikoi, Smyrna. 



Four Indian coins. By Mrs. Crook. 



A long-cross penny of Henry III. By E. Burns, Esq. 



A five-franc piece of 1870. By W. Blades, Esq. 



Five English copper coins. By S. O. Gray, Esq. 



A Southampton token. By P. G. Ward, Esq. 



A copper coin of Nero, struck at Augusta, in Cilicia. By Lieut. Col. J. Leonidas 

 Lyghounes. 



A silver coin of Populonia, and twenty-four copper coins of Syria and Asia Minor. 

 By M. De Saulcy. 



A steel die of an American note. By J. R. Macdaniel, Esq. 

 _ A medal commemorating the opening of the New Coal Exchange. By the Corpora- 

 tion of London. 



Three prize medals of the City of London School. By the School Committee. 



A medal commemorating the opening of the Holborn Viaduct and Blackfriars Bridge. 

 By the Joint Committee of the Bridge-house Estates and I mjn-ovemeut. 



A satirical medal of Napoleon III. By the Rev. W. Falconer. 



A medal of the Exhibition of Tromso. By the Norwegian Government. 



A copper coin of Goa. By Roland Trimen, Esq. 



A copper coin of Hetam I., King of Armenia. By Mons. C. Constant. 



Two English tokens. By the Rev. John Manley. 



A medal struck to commemorate the repulse of the Spanish fleet off Callao. By Harry 

 Emanuel, Esq. 



A set of the current coins of India. By Lieut. Col. Hyde, R.E. 



An archaic drachm of Athens, and two other Greek coins! By Capt. Prideaux, r.e. 



A medallet commemorative of the Gordon riots, and a medal of the anniversary dinner 

 of the Livery of London. By A. W. Franks, Esq. 



A bronze medal commemorating the centenary of the foundation of the Schemnitzer 

 Berg-und-Forst-Akademie. By the Academy. 



IV. Exhibitio7i : — 



The exhibition of electi'otypes of remarkable Greek coins in the Gold Ornament Room 

 has been sujiplemented by a similar exhibition of electrotypes of Roman and Bvzantine 

 gold coins, forming as complete an Imperial series as the space would admit. 



A guide has been prepared for the former exhibition. 



The number of visitors of the Medal Room during the past year has been 1,149. 



The number of visitors to the Gold Ornament Room has been 6,905. 



Reginald Stuart Poole. 



Departments of Natural History. 



The circumstances which now render any accessions to the Natural History Depart- 

 ments unduly or peculiarly onerous and difiicult to the officers in charge, since the neces- 

 sity of increased space for their reception was finally recognised in 1862 by all the 

 authorities concerned in the provision thereof, acid year by year to the reticence exercised 

 in the admission to those departments of additional specimens. Offers of collecfions for 

 sale and opportunities of acquisitions by purchase are declined or postponed, which, with 

 due exhibltlon-E^ace, might have had claims for submission to the consideration of the 

 Trustees. 



Nevertheless those conditions and qualities which have appeared to be imperative on 

 the responsible oflficers have operated in the reception into, and Incorj)oration with, the 

 present crowded series, during the year 1871, of 15,879 specimens. 



Of these 10,577 have been added to the Department of Zoology; 4,789 to the Depart- 

 ment of Geology, and 513 to the Department of Mineralogy. 



But the above numbers fall short of representing the requirements of exhibition space 

 annually pressing. The British Museum possesses accumulations of specimens in store 

 from general collections, voyages of discover}^, &c., and the work of examination, deter- 

 mination, or Identification of these specimens results In the addition of numbers of such 

 specimens which claim places in the exhibited series, and will have them when the 

 galleries of the New Museum are ready for their reception. 



Thus, of the reserved or store specimens of minerals, 1,290 have been determined, 

 named, and the localities, where verifiable, attached to the descriptive labels, during the 

 past year ; analogous results follow similar labours in other departments of Natural 

 History. 



To meet the wishes and expectations of scientific visitors and students, in regard to 

 opportunities of study and inspection of specimens relating to the latest advances in 



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