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An upright case, containing 18 square feet, has been placed in Room II., and swords 

 from Northern and Western Africa arranged in it. A desk case has also been added to 

 this room, in which a series of xiustralian stone implements is displayed. 



In Room V., an upright case, containing 19 square feet, has been added, and filled with 

 swords and krises from the Asiatic Islands. 



One hundred and nineteen flint implements have been mounted on tablets, and one 

 hundred objects have had the names of localities painted on them. 



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

 numerous additional illustrations have been engraved for the printed catalogue. 



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

 transferred to the Trustees of the British Museum : — 



1. Pre-ldstoric Antiquities of Europe, Africa, and Asia. — A drift implement found on 

 the sea-shore between Bournemouth and Poole Harbour, Doi'setshire ; from R. N. 

 Hamond, Esq. 



Drift implements found in France, from John Evans, Esq., F.R.S, 



Flint flakes from the Grotte de la Vache (Ariege), France : from William Black- 

 more, Esq. 



A flint implement from the Trou de Balleux, Valley of the Lesse, Belgium, from M. 

 Louis De Pauw. 



Some specimens from a cave named Hohlefels, near Blaubeuren, Wurtemberg, a few 

 objects irom Schussenried, Wurtemberg, and a flint implement from a cave named 

 R'ciuberhohle, near Etferzhausen, Bavaria ; from Professor O. Fraas, of Stuttgart. 



Flint implements, fragments of pottery, and bones, from the R'auberhohle, near Etterz- 

 hausen, Bavaria ; from Professor K. A. Zittel, of Munich. 



Antiquities of wood and stone, and fragments of pottery, found whilst draining Gibb 

 Tarn, Ciunberland ; from E. D. Darbishire, Esq., F.S.A. 



Cast of a j^erforated quoit-shaped stone implement, found in Denbighshire ; from W. 

 Boyd Dawkins, Esq., F.R.S. 



Perforated quoit-shaped stone implement found in Sussex, two urns and a stone wrist- 

 guard, found together near Brandon, Suffolk, and neolithic stone impalements found in 

 England ; from A. W. Franks, Esq. 



Three perforated stags- horn implements found in the Thames, from Thomas Layton, 

 Esq., F.S.A. ; and another found in Bottesford Beck, Lincolnshire, from Edwai'd Peacock, 

 Esq., F.S.A. 



Two flint implements from the Cotswolds, from George F. Playne, Esq. ; a flint 

 " scraper," found at Chelmsford, from W. J. Bernhard Smith, Esq. ; and part of a South 

 Sea stone adze-head found in the Thames, between Lambeth and Vauxhall bridges, from 

 J. G. Waller, Esq. 



A fishing-net sink-stone, and a perforated discoidal stone, found in the Orkney Islands, 

 from George Petrie, Esq. ; stone implements from the North of Ireland, from John 

 Evans, Esq., F.R.S. ; and some wooden spikes, supposed to have been used as caltrops, 

 found on Cora-an-are Mountain, near Dingle, County Kerry, from Colonel A. Lane 

 Fox, V.P.S.A. 



A deer's-horu pick, from Spiennes, Belgium, and quartzite im])lements found in 

 Brittany ; from John Evans, Esq., f.r.s. 



Neolithic implements from Brittany, Belgium, Denmark, Austria, Italy, Sicily, and 

 Greece ; from A. W. Franks, Esq. 



Three stone implements from the Island of Gothland ; from the Rev. James Beck. 



A large collection of stone im2:>lements,some fragments of pottery, &c., found in Anda- 

 lusia, Spain ; from William McPherson, Esq., of Cadiz, 



Cast of a stone celt, with figures in intaglio, preserved in the Museum of the Acropolis 

 at Athens ; from the Director of the Musee do St. Germain, France. 



A stone celt found on the banks of the Nile, near Karnac, froni Henry Vaughau, Esq. ; 

 a collection of stone Implements, including a polishing or grinding-stone, and fragments 

 of pottery, from Cape Colony, from the Rev. Langham Dale ; and a spherical green- 

 stone ball found at the Diamond Diggings, South Africa, from G. W. StoAv, Esq., F.G.s. 



Flint implements, knapping stone, and bronze needle, found at Beth-Saour, near Beth- 

 lehem, by the Abbe Moretain; from Captain R. F. Burton, F.R.G.S. ; cast of a stone celt 

 found in Coorg, India, from Arthur Grote, Esq. ; and four stone celts found in Temples 

 oftheMalayali tribe, Shevaroy Hills, Madras Presidency, from Major G. G. Pearse, r.a, 



A shepherd's wooden tally, found near Wishmoor, Sandhurst, Surrey ; from Professor 

 T. Rupert Jones, F.G.S. 



2. Ethnography of Africa. — Four spears from Assouan, Upper Egypt ; from Frederic 

 Ouvry, Esq., Treasui-er S.A. ; an iron missile weapon obtained near the same place, by 

 the late Duke of Northumberland, and a similar projectile, from A. W. Franks, Esq. 



Two perforated pieces of cone-shell, used as money at Fernando Po, from the 

 Society's Museum, Bremen; a pipe from West Africa, from William Braggc, Esq., 

 F.S.A. ; a finger ring from the New Calabar River, an old bronze manilla, and a modern 

 one of Birmingham manufacture, from the Bonny River, from J. M. Foster, Esq., 

 F.S.A.; a bronze finger ring from West Africa, from Joiin Henderson, Esq., f.s.a. : 

 and various objects from the Ashanti country, &c., from R. G. Whitfield, Esq. 



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