ACCOUNTS, &C., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM. 1 9 



3. A mitra of bracteate gold, with archaic design of two groups of lions standing 

 confronted. 



4. A bronze group of two figures which probably represents either the marriage of 

 Marcus Aurelius with Faustina the younger, or his adoption by Faustina the elder. 

 From Egypt. 



5. A terra-cotta figure of a female dancer, wearing a Phrygian cap and a short chiton ; 

 in her right hand an apple. From Tanagra. 



6. A terra-cotta androgynous figure, holding in the left hand a dove, in the right an 

 apple; round the waist a girdle of overlapping scales. This and the preceding figure have 

 had wings, for the insei-tion of which the sockets remain. From Tanagra. 



7. A terra-cotta lekythos, ornamented on the front with a figure of Victory standing 

 beside a vase and holding a phiale in her left hand. From Athens. 



8. Two bronze statuettes of comic actors. 



9. A Roman portrait head in marble. 



10. A fictile lekythos, with black figures on red ground ; Achilles and Polyxena at the 

 fountain. From Gela, in Sicily. 



11. Five rings in agate, and two in carnelian, engraved with rude designs. 



12. An archaic fictile vase, with geometric patterns. From Athens. 



13. A terra-cotta handle of a Rhodian diota, stamped. From Babylon. 



14. A marble statue of the Indian Bacchus, exceeding life-size, and resembling the 

 statue of the Vatican Museum engraved in Visconti, Museo Pio-Clementino II. pi. 41. 

 A similar representation of Bacchus occurs on a sard intaglio in the Towneley collection. 

 Found at Posilipo in 1874. 



15. Twenty-four bronze vases, remarkable for their fine condition and the beauty of 

 their forms. Found at Galaxidi, the site of Oiantheia, near Delphi. 



16. A gold stud, ornamented with filigree work. Found in a tomb at Cyme in 

 Aeolis. 



17. A marble slab, with Grreek inscription in five lines, recording a dedication by 

 M. Licinius Alexander. From Sebaste in Judaea. 



18. An intaglio in red jasper: Bellerophon riding on Pegasus, and aiming a spear 

 at the Chimasra. 



C. T. Newton. 



Department of British and MEDiiEVAL Antiquities and Ethnography. 



I. — Arrangement. 



Portions of the Avail- cases of the new room on the first floor, intended for the Pre- 

 hisforic Collection, have been erected, but they cannot be completed until the Zoological 

 Collections have been removed to the New Natural History Museum, as a part of the 

 space they are to occupy is still filled with zoological specimens. 



Partly for this reason, and partly on account of the important acquisition of the 

 Meyrick and Henderson Collections, it has been decided to suspend for the present the 

 arrangement of the Pre-historic Series, and to exhibit the collections above named in the 

 cases that have been completed. 



The locks oi three table-cases in the British Room have been altered to render them 

 more safe. 



26 seals have been mounted on tablets, with impressions at their sides. 



An elaborate catalogue of the collection of gold ornaments in the department has been 

 commenced, on the same system as the catalogue of finger rings reported last year, and 

 53 objects have been catalogued, with drawings of them annexed. 



The registration has been continued, and 835 specimens registered. 



259 card labels have been written for specimens in the mediaeval section. 



The Meyrick and Henderson Collections have been packed and safely removed to the 

 Museum. 



II . — Acquisitions ■ 



The most important acquisitions of the year are those portions of the Meyrick and 

 Henderson Collections that belong to the department, and which will be noticed separately. 



Exclusive of these collections, and of the additions to the Christy Collection, the 

 acquisitions have been 620 in number, and may be classed as follows: — 



170. C 2 (1.) British 



