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



A chief's staff {hmii) from New Zealand, carved in whale's bone, from Captain J* 

 Storey ; four New Zealand stone implements, and two Australian, from A. W. Franks, 



Esq. 



5. Antiquities and Ethnograpliy of America : — 



(a.) North America. — Objects used by the Esquimaux, collected by the donor. Dr. J. 

 E.ae, r.K.S, ; a bow and barbed arrowhead from Labrador, from T. G. B. Lloyd, Esq., 

 P.G.S. ; North American dresses, from John Davidson, Esq. ; a carved slate pipe from 

 the North West Coast, from Professor T. Rupert Jones, f.k.s. 



(6.) Central America. — Mexican ear ornaments of obsidian, from A. W. Franks, Esq. > 

 three vases found in Guatemala, from his Excellency Edwin Corbett, Esq. ; a Mexican 

 jade figure, fiom William Carruthers, Esq., f.k.s. 



(c.) South America. — Objects discovered in an ancient cemetery at Arica, Peru, from 

 Lieutenant M. J. Harrison, R.N. ; Peruvian vases and antiquities, and Ecuador ear orna- 

 ment, from A. W. Franks, Esq. 



An arrowhead from Uruguay, from Daniel Williams, Esq. 



The Christy Collection is open on Fridays by means of tickets to be obtained at the 

 British Museum. During the year there have been 858 visitors, being about the same 

 number as the previous year. 



Augustus W. Franks. 



Department of Coins and Medals. 



I. — Arrangement. 



1. Greek Series: — 



458 coins of various classes and one piece of Aes Grave have been registered, and 214 

 coins incorporated. 



137 coins from the Wigan Collection have been registered. 



The coins of Pampliylia, Pisidia, Lycaonia, Cilicia, and Lydia have been re-arranged, 

 and printed cards giving the date of the accession and death of each of the Roman 

 Emperors have been placed at the head of the money of each Emperor in the Imperial 

 series struck in the above districts. 



710 coins of Apulia and Calabria have been compared with their descriptions in the 

 Catalogue of Greek Coins, Italy, and references to this Catalogue have been placed on 

 >the cards beneath them. 



The silver coins of Thrace, the Thracian Chersonese, and Macedon, including those of 

 the regal series down to Archelaus I., as well as the series of the Kings of the Edones, 

 the Bisaltse, &c., have been weighed, and re-arranged according to the metrological system 

 of the late Dr. Brandis. 



The coinage of the Persian Empire and of the Satraps has also been arranged, for the 

 most part on the same system. 



The electrum and gold coinage of the coasts of Asia Minor has been weighed, re- 

 arranged, and classified according to the various standards, Babylonian, Asiatic, and 

 Phocaean which these coins follow. 



The archaic silver coins of uncertain attribution have also been weighed and classified 

 in a similar manner. 



2. Roman Series : — 



154 coins acquired during the year have been registered, and 8 incorporated. 



144 coins from the Wigan Collection have been registered. 



The series of the barbarous silver coinage has been transferred to a fresh cabinet and 

 labelled. 



The Roman medallions and the coins of the Greek Emperors of Trebizond have been 

 transferred to fresh cabinets. 



The coins of the Blacas Collection, now in the British Museum, which were engraved 

 by the late Due de Blacas for his translation of Mommsen's History of the Roman 

 Coinage, have been identified with the plates and weighed. 



The copper coins of the Republican period have been re-arranged, and labels have been 

 affixed to the cabinets, showing the various reductions of the As and the dates of the 

 issue of the various coinages. 



An index has been made of all the silver and copper coins of the Empire, from the reign 

 of Valerian to the commencement of the Byzantine period. This portion of the series, 

 whicli is arranged geographically under numerous places of mintage, is thus rendered 

 available for constant reference, Avhile the scientific classification is still preserved. 



