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III. — Slade Collection. 



During the earlier part of the year 1873, the executors of the late Felix Slade, Esq., 

 have purchased out of the fund especially bequeathed to them for the purpose, 260 speci- 

 mens of glass of various periods, at a total cost of 472 /. 1 5. 2 d., and have presented them 

 as additions to the Slade collection. This completes the expenditure of the fund in 

 question, amounting in all to 3,000 /., and this section will no longer appear in the 

 Annual Report. 



Among the more remarkable of the specimens may be noticed the following : — 



An Egyptian amulet in the form of a lion's face, of deep blue opaque glass, inscribed 

 with the prenomen of Nuantef IV., a monarch of the Xlth dynasty, placed by Lepsius 

 between B.C. 2423 and 2380. The oldest specimen of glass (if it be not obsidian) 

 hitherto recorded, bears the name of a queen of the XVIIIth dynasty, and is therefore 

 considerably later in date. 



A goblet from the island of Thera or Santorin, Greek Archipelago, with moulded 

 ornaments ; and another from Melos, insci'ibed AABE THN NIKHN. 



A drinking horn, and other vessels of late Roman work, found at Bingerbriick, on the 

 Nahe, Germany. 



A Venetian vase of large size, and other rare specimens from the same manufactory. 



A small collection of Spanish glass, and a collection of pastes by Brown and other 

 artists. 



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. two small cases have been added, giving 12 square feet of exhibition space; 

 various alterations have been made to display recent acquisitions. 



In Room IV. some of the minor Mexican antiquities have been compressed into a 

 smaller space, to make room for recent acquisitions from North America, 



The localities have been Avritten or painted on 1,275 stone implements; 350 additional 

 slips have been prepared for the Registration Catalogue ; and some additional illustra- 

 tions 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-historic. Antiquities of Europe, Africa, and, Asia. — Drift implements found at 

 Hill Head, near Fareham, Hants, from James Brown, Esq., and A. W. Franks, Esq.; 

 two others found on Southampton Common, from John Evans, Esq., f.k.s. 



Flint flake from the " drift " at Marboue, Chateaudun, (Eure et Loir), France, from 

 John Evans, Esq.. F.R.S. 



Five stone implements found while dredging a berth for H. M. S. " Fisgard," off 

 Greenwich Hospital, 1872, from the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty ; three casts 

 of stone celts found in Lancashire and Cumberland, fiom R. D. Darbishire, Esq., f.s.a. ; 

 cast of a stone adze-head of South Sea type, stated to have been found in the Victoria 

 Cave, at Settle, Yorkshire, from W. Boyd Dawkins, Esq., f.e.s. ; perforated axe of 

 stag's-horn, found in the Medway, from G. R. Dewilde, Esq. ; flint implements found in 

 the Thames, and perforated " knapping-stone," found in Surrey, from A. W. Franks, 

 Esq.; stone celt found on Winder-Moor, near Holker Hall, Westmoreland, and a per- 

 forated stone axe found at Kirkby, Lancashire, from J. K. Hodgson, Esq. ; two stone 

 celts stated to have been found in the Thames, from F. G. H. Price, Esq ; a griuding-stone, 

 of quartzite, found on Great Dane-Worth Farm, near Hurstpierpoint, Sussex, in 1861, 

 from the Rev. W. SparroAv Simpson, d.d., f.s.a. 



Flint implements from Urquhart, Morayshire, from John Evans, Esq., f.k.s. ; and 

 flint arrow-head found in Kincardineshire, from James Napier, Esq. 



Stone celts found in the North of Ireland, and two others from the Cotes du Nord, 

 France, from John Evans, Esq., F.E.S. 



Two bone harpoon heads from Denmark ; four stone celts obtained in Germany ; three 

 others from Bavaria ; casts of objects of the Neolithic Period found in Germany; anti- 

 quities from Estavayer, Lake of Neuchatel ; two bone awls from Locras, Lake of Bienne ; 

 stone celt and arrowhead, from Italy, and celt from Sicily, from A. W. Franks, Esq. ; 

 obsidian core found in Greece, from John Holmes, Esq. ; and two flakes of the same 

 mciterial, also found in Greece, from Professor Rhousopoulos, of Athens. 



Arrow tipped Avith flint, found in a tomb near the temple of Medinet Abou, Thebes ; 

 flint flakes found at Helouan, 14 miles from Cairo; and stone pounder found at Tel Basta 

 (Bubastis), Egypt, from A. W. Franks, Esq. 



Minute flakes and core of chalcedony, found at the Diamond Fields, South Africa, 

 from G. W. Stow, Esq., f.g.s. 



Four stone implements found in tjie Lebanon, Syria, from A. W. Franks, Esq. 



A quartz pivot and cup of the vertical shaft of a gold amalgamating mill, lately in use 

 121. D 4 in 



