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



Nine fragments of sepulchral brasses, of which six are presented by the Rev. W. 

 Sparrow Simpson, d.d. 



Two sculptured tablets of the end of the 14th century. 



An encaustic tile with a knight on horseback, presented by "Winslow Jones, Esq.; a 

 terra cotta figure, found in the crypt of the refectory of St. Mary Overy, Southwark ; 

 presented by E-ichard Simpson, Esq., J. p. 



Matrix of a seal of the 1 3th century, found in the Thames, being a gem set in silver ; 

 presented by the Rev. W. S. Simpson, d.d. Several other English seals, including 

 those of the parish of St. Mary Magdalen, Oxford; in ivory of the Hospital of St. John, 

 Lichfield; of the Commissary of Lincoln, the Vicar of England, the Prebend of Grimston, 

 and a remarkable jet seal found in Lincolnshire. 



Steel die for embossing English watch cases ; presented by Henry Willett, Esq. 

 F.G.S. 



(4.) Byzantbie and Foreign MedicBoal, Sfc. — Iron weapons discovered in tombs In Nor- 

 way ; presented by Mons. A. Loi'ange, Director of the Museum at Bergen. 



Byzantine gold ornaments discovered in the Fejoum, Egypt; bronze Coptic lamps, and 

 terra cotta bottles with figures of St. Menas. 



A carved ivory tablet of the end of 15th century, representin;^ the tree of Jesse. 



A sepulchral tablet in brass for Nicholas le Brun, " bailly de Joumont," who died 

 17th March 1547, and his wife Fran^oise, 27 April 1531. It rej^resents a sacred sym- 

 bolical subject, below which the deceased lying on a mat, and has an elaborate arabesque 

 border. 



Small pillar of granite, with an Arabic inscription, found "at Alexandria, 1726, and 

 engraved in " Arch^ologia," Vol. VII., Part I. ; presented by the Society of Antiquaries 

 uf London, 



An enamelled tile from the Mosque of Omar, Jerusalem, and another from the Great 

 Mosque at Damascus ; presented by the Rev. Greville J. Chester. 



(5.) Glass Colliction. — A fluted glass bowl, Graeco-Roman, found in the Island of 

 Crete. 



Two Roman bottles found at Amiens, presented by John Evans, Esq., f.k.s. Three 

 other specimens of glass found near the same city, and three fine specimens of Roman 

 glass from Cologne, one of them in the form of a fish. 



A very remarkable Anglo-Saxon drinking-glass with lobes in relief, found in Cam- 

 bridgeshire, and a small early mediasval vessel found near (he Rhine ; presented by John 

 Evans, Esq., f.r.s. 



An Arab glass lamp of the 14th century, enamelled in colours, with gilding, and bearing 

 the name of the mosque for which it was made ; brought from Damascus ; ^iresented by 

 A. W. Frariks, Esq. 



A German glass bottle, dated 1634, and thi'ee specimens of glass, probably Swiss; 

 presented by A. VV, Franks, Esq. ; a Venetian tazza in opaque white glass. 



(6.) Ethnographical. — Some interesting objects obtained by Cajjtain Henry Wilson in 

 1783, in the Pelew Islands, and engravings of which appeared in his account of the 

 Pelew Islands, edited by Mr. Keate. They include a large wooden box, in form of a 

 bird, inlaid with shell, a smaller box of the same materials, tortoiseshell vessels which 

 belonged to Prince Lee Boo, weapons, and a curious bone ring worn on the arm, as a 

 mark of high rank ; presented in accordance with the intention of the late Rev. VV. Wills, 

 of Holcombe Rogus, Devon, by Miss Salter. 



A tapa robe from the South Seas, presented by Hei-bert J. Reid, Esq, ; a terra-cotta 

 head, said to have been an idol of the Flathead Indians, and an amulet of stone ; pre- 

 sented by Henry Phillips, Esq. 



A small bottle carved out of a South American nut; presented by AValter de Gray 

 Birch, Esq. 



III. — Christy Collection. 



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

 which remains at 103, Victoria-street, Westminster. 



On the ground-floor a glass case has been added, to display some of the Collections from 

 South America. 



866 additional slips have been- prepared for the Registration Catalogue, with sketches 

 of the objects. 



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 Asi^r. — Drift implements found near 

 Hackney Down, from G. H. Gaviller, Esq. ; quartzite implement from Warren Hill, 

 Mildenhall, from Rev. W. Greenwell, F.S.A. ; drift Implements from Hampshire and 

 Moulin QuIgnon, France, from John Evans, Esq., r.R-S. 



Flakes from the caves at Mentone and Grotte Lacan, France, from John Evans, Esq. ; 

 specimens of bone and stone implements found in the cave at Thayingen, Canton Schafl- 



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