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



The sculptures, which were much broken, and very badly repaired, have been put 

 together with copper plugs and otherwise made good. 



(3.) The miscellaneous sculptures are not of great importance, but, in addition to those 

 already in the Museum, will enable the student to trace the history of Indian art and 

 Indian mythology from the suppression of Buddhism to our own times. 



(4.) The antiquities from the topes of Afghanistan were collected by Mr. C. Masson 

 and are fully described in Wilson's Ariana Antiqua, p. 55. They consist of relic caskets 

 of steatite, one of them inscribed, coins and various antiquities, which fix the date of these 

 topes as belonging to the early centuries of the Christian era. It is much to be reo-retted 

 that portions of Masson's collection seems to have been dispersed, as they are of great 

 historical value. 



(.'),) The celebrated Buddhist caves at Ajanta are situated to the north-east of Bombay 

 and are decorated with rich paintings, representing both figures and ornamental desio-ns. ' 



The Indian Government have been for some years having copies made of these painfinfr's 

 which illustrate Buddhist art under a new aspect, and show much excellence of desio-n.° ' 



About 100 of these copies of paintings were received at the British Museum '^ "but 

 a selection of the merely ornamental designs has been made, and returned to the South 

 Kensington Museum as serving to illustrate the history of ornament. The remainder 

 have been placed over the wall cases in the new Prehistoric room, occupied by the 

 Henderson and Meyrick collections, pending some better mode of displayino- them, 



(6.) A few ethnographical objects have been selected from the series of Economic 

 Products in the India Museum. Among them is a fine Buddhist chank shell trumpet from 

 Thibet, and a board for the game pullangooly. 



IV. Christ!/ Collection. 



The following progress has been made in arranging and augmenting this collection 

 which remains at 103, Victoria-street, Westminster. 



A further portion of the Oriental collections has been removed to the British Museum 

 in order to compare them with the collections already there, and with acquisitions from 

 the India Museum. 



Two hundred and ninety additional slips have been prepared for the Reo-istration 

 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-his/oric Antiquities of Europe, Africa, and Asia. — Drift implements from Suffolk 

 a pounder and flint flakes from Grrimes' Graves, near Brandon, and flint implements frorn 

 Yorkshire and Suffolk ; from the Rev. W. Greenwell, F.K.s. Flint arrowheads found in 

 Norfolk and Suffolk ; from Edward Skinner, Esq. 



Specimens from the Swiss Lakes, and stone implements from Spain, Italy, Sicily, and 

 Asia Minor ; from A. W. Franks, Esq. A celt of fibrolite found in a sepulchre at 

 Alhama de Grenada, Spain ; from William Macpherson, Esq. 



2. Ethnography of Africa. — Collection of arms, dresses, and personal ornaments, from 

 the Pondo, Galeka, and Zulu tribes, obtained during the Zulu war; from A. W Franks 

 Esq. 



Specimen of red stone, used as a colour by the bushmen in painting their rock pictures • 

 from Francis Galton, Esq., F.E.s. 



3. Ethnography of Asia. — Various ethnographical objects, duplicates from the Economic 

 series of Botany, transferred from the India Museum to Kew ; received from the Director 

 of the Royal Gardens, Kew. 



A Chinese tablet of green jade, inscribed on both faces; from Henry Wlllett, Esq., r.G.s 



4. Ethnography of Oceania and Australasia. — Club of rare form, from Pentecost 

 Island, New HelDrides ; from General Pitt-Rivers, f.e.s. A club from the Fiji Islands • 

 from the Director of the Royal Gardens, Kew. 



Clubs and ornaments from the South Seas, and a small collection from New Guinea • 

 from A. W. Franks, Esq. 



Lime gourds and spatulse for betel chewing, obtained at the Admiralty Islands during 

 the cruise of H. M.S. " Challenger"; from H. N. Moseley, Esq., f.e.s. 



5. Antiquities and Ethnography of America. — A celt of liEematite from Kanawha River 

 Virginia ; from T. W. U. Robinson, Esq., F.S.A. 



Fragments of pottery from British Honduras ; from his Excellency General Sir Henry 

 Lefroy. Four arrowheads and specimens of pottery from Honduras; from A. W. 

 Franks, Esq. 



Five stone arrowheads from Rio Negro, Patagonia ; from Senor F. P. Moreno of 

 Buenos Ayres. 



An ancient Peruvian staffliead in bronze ; from Professor A. H. Church. 



A number of objects from British Guiana, collected during his residence in that country, 

 by the donor, Everard F. im Thurn, Esq. 



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