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II. — A gold ring, with a turquoise cameo of a bearded head. The setting is modern 

 Indian. 



Presented hy J. W. Burges, Esq. 



III. — A fictile Kalathos, with geometric patterns painted in red and black. From 

 Capua. 



Presented hy the Rev. Greville Chester. 



IV. — A marble stele, inscribed Avith the manumission of a slave in archaic Greek 

 characters. From Cape Matapan (Taenaros), in Lakonia. Similar manumissions from 

 Lakonia have been published by Kirchhoff in the " Hermes," III., p. 449, and in his 

 *' Studien," 3rd ed., p. 145, and by Foucart in Lebas, " Inscript. du Peloponnese," 

 No. 255, a.b., and in the "Bulletin de Correspondance Hellenique," III., pp. 96-99. 

 Presented by Dr. Mullen, R.N. 



V. — The back of a colossal female head in marble, Avith the hair looped up, and bound 

 with a diadem. 



Presented by his Grace the Duke of Si. Albans. 



VI. — 1. Carnelian lentoid intaglio : Charioteer driving biga. From Gnossus in Krete. 



2. Carnelian cylinder intaglio : Gryphons, goats, and dolphins. From Gnossua in 

 Krete. 



3. Lead weight, inscribed on one side AEITPA, on the other side AIIOAAONIOY. 

 Obtained from Smyrna. 



4. Small bronze relief ; head of Medusa. Found in the Seine, at Paris. 



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5. Small relief in lead ; head of a Gaul, surrounded by snakes, and with tore on neck 

 Found in the Seine, at Paris. 



6. Leaden statuette ; Gaulish captive, kneeling. Found in the Seine, at Paris. 



Presented by A. W. Franks, Esq. 



C. T. Newton. 



Department of British and Medieval Antiquities and Ethnography. 



' I. — Arrangement. 



In the new Pre-historic Room four table cases, lent by the Geological Department, 

 have been replaced by others provided for this Department, and temjDorary legs have been 

 made for the two remaining cases. The glazed portions of the table cases have been 

 filled Avith the larger specimens of pre-historic antiquities from the Christy and general 

 collections ; and in the drawers have been arranged the antiquities of the stone age, both 

 English and foreign, belonging to the Christy Collection, which had hitherto been stored 

 away in the keeper's residence from want of space. 



In the British Koom the locks of a table case have been altered to the new suit. 



Ten sets of temporary legs have been made for old table case tops not required for the 

 Mineralogical Department. 



The studies of the Department have been removed to those vacated by the Botanical 

 Department. 



The work done in connection with the antiquities received from the India Museum 

 will be noticed in another section. 



Seventeen Oriental arms have been cleaned and varnished. 



Eighteen seals have been mounted, with impressions at their sides. 



Eleven British urns have been repaired. 



The catalogvie of the collection of gold ornaments has been continued, and 92 rings 

 and ornaments have been described, with draAviugs annexed. 



Three hundred wooden stands have been made for British urns, and have been inscribed 

 with the localities of the specimens. 



One hundred and twenty-six card labels have been written. 



The registration has been continued, and 584 objects registered. 



II. — Acquisitions. 



(1.) British and Pre-historic Antiquities. — The Bev. W. GreeuAvell, whose gift of an 

 extensive collection of early remains excavated by him in British barrows has been 

 noticed in the report of the previous years, has presented some further additions, recently 

 obtained by him from barrows near Lambourne, Berkshire. Among them is a remark- 

 able axe of stag's horn, and a fine pierced axe of stone. 



Six cinerary urns from Dorsetshire, another from Troston Heath, Suflfolk, and a very 

 fine one from Cairn Graf, near Lanark ; presented by John Evans, Esq., d.c.l., Treas. B.b. 



An urn found in a barrow near West Tanfield, Yorkshire ; presented by the 

 Kev. W. C. Lukis, f.s.a. 



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