22 ACCOUNTS, &C., OF THK BlllTISH MUSEUM. 



18. Bearded head of a philosopher (?) ; ia fine condition. 



19. Satyric mask in rosso antico. 



20. Satyric mask. 



IX. — 1. Terra-cotta statuettes of a female in a talaric cA/fora and mantle ; of a nurse 

 suckling a child ; of Seilenos with the infant Dionysos on bis shoulder; all from Tanagra, 

 and in very fine condition. 



2. A two-handled fictile dish, on the outside of which is painted in black on a red 

 ground a sacrificial procession, probably Dionysiac, and inside, a group of three grotesque 

 figures, one of whom is armed with a sword. 



C. T. Newton. 



Department of British and Medieval Antiquities and Ethnography. 



I. — Arrangement. 



The wall-cases in the new room on the first floor (as far as they have been completed) 

 have been fitted with shelves, and distempered or covered with merino, as required. In 

 cases 1-16 has been arranged the Meyrick Collection ; in cases 17-18, a selection of 

 Oriental arms from the Christy Collection; in cases 19-20, a collection of Japanese 

 arms, etc., presented by A. W. Franks, Esq. ; in cases 33-50, the Plenderson Col- 

 lection. 



Ten table cases have been placed in this room, fitted with locks, and lined with merino ; 

 four of them made for the department, and the remainder lent by the G.eological Depart- 

 ment. In four of these cases have been arranged the choicer specimens of the Henderson 

 Collection, including the best examples of majolica, the smaller pieces of metal work, the 

 Russian silver and enamels, and the more richly ornamented of the Oi'iental arms. In 

 another case have been placed the smaller objects from the Meyrick Collection ; a sixth 

 case has been devoted to Oriental weapons from the Christy Collection ; and the remain- 

 ing cases have been filled wirh enamels, objects relating to games (including chessmen), 

 dials and watches, and other small objects, removed from the general collection. 



Card labels have been placed with all the specimens in the Hendeison Collection, and 

 with part of the Meyrick and other collections in the room. 



In the British Room, the foreign bronzes of the Pre-historic Series have been placed 

 in a table case ; the models of cromlechs have been removed to the new room ; the series 

 of ancient German pottery has been compressed or put away ; and thus space has been 

 found for the Greenwell Collection, which has been arranged and labelled. 



The locks of two cases in the Britisli Room, containing matrices of seals, have been 

 altered to the new suit. 



The Oriental arms from the Christy Collection have been cleaned and varnished. 



51 glass vases have been mounted on stands; 89 pieces of glass have been affixed to 

 tablets ; 60 matrices of seals have been mounted on tablets with wax impressions, and four 

 gems have been similarly mounted wdth casts at their sides. Five Mexican sculptures 

 have been mounted on stone pedestals. Seven tiles have been mounted > on wooden 

 plinths, and 30 mahogany stands have been made for majolica plates. 



Five British urns, and several miscellaneous specimens from the Henderson and other 

 collections, have been repaired. 



The registration has been continued, and 2,052 antiquities registered, including the 

 whole of the Henderson and Meyrick Collections, 



20 general labels in black and gold have been made, and 1,341 card labels have been 

 written. 



The Greenwell Collection has been safely packed and removed from Durham to the 

 Museum. 



II. — Acquisitions. 



(1.) British and Pre-historic Antiquities. — The Museum has received the most important 

 addition to this section that has been obtained since the first foundation of the Institution, 

 viz., the Greenwell Collection. 



This collection, presented by the Rev. "W. Greenwell, F.R.S., f.s.a.. Is the result of the 

 researches undertaken by him during the last 20 years in the barrows of Britain, which 

 have been described by him in "British Barrows," Oxford 1877. The excavations were 

 conducted with great care and at no little expense, and extended to 234 barrows, of which 

 171 were in Yorkshire, two in Cumberland, 20 in Westmoreland, 31 in Northumberland, 

 one in Durham, and nine in Gloucestershire, and in these barrows a great number of 

 objects have been found. The specimens of pottery are about 170 in number, and include 

 good examples of all the varieties of British funereal vessels, which are known to anti- 

 quaries as cinerary urns, food vessels, drinking cups, and incense cups, though some of 

 these attributions are by no means certain. Among the relics associated with the urns, 

 are flakes, knives, scrapers, arrowheads, and other implements of flint ; implements for 



making 



