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The Trustees of the Christy Collection have purchased, from funds at their disposal, 

 a valuable series of weapons, dresses, and other objects used by the Malays and Dyaks, 

 in Borneo, Sumatra, Java, and Celebes ; collected in those countries by Mr. Carl Bock 

 during his recent journey. 



The Christy Collections remains open on Fridays by means of tickets to be obtained at 

 the British Museum. During the past year there have been 617 visitors. 



Augustus W. Franks. 



Department of Coins and Medals. 



I. — Arrangement. 



1. Greek Series: — 



185 coins of various parts of the Greek world, recently acquired, have been registered, 

 and 341 incorporated. 



1,025 tickets, with references to the printed catalogue, have been written and inserted 

 under the coins published in the Catalogue of coins of Thrace, &c. The coins of 

 Thessaly, Epirus, Corcyra, Acarnania, Aetolia, Locri, Phocis, and of the Ptolemies have 

 been weio^hed and finally arranged in chronological order preparatory to cataloguing. 



The coins of Ephesus, Miletus, and Erythrae, have been arranged, and the magistrates' 

 names written on the cards under them. In the case of Ephesus a list of magistrates has 

 been drawn up from all available sources. 



The Greek Imperial coins of cities of Pontus, Eithynia, Mysia, and Crete have been 

 arranged and heading cards inserted with names of emperors. A find of 189 coins of 

 Alexander the Great and his successors, and several hundred coins from Crete, Egypt, 

 and Cyprus, have been examined, and specimens selected for the National Collection. 



2. Roman Series: — 



18 coins, acquired during the past year, have been registered and incorporated. 

 241 cards, giving references to the Catalogue of Eoman Medallions in the British 

 Museum, have been placed under the specimens. 



3. English Series: — 



139 coins and medals, recently acquired, have been registered, and 20 have been incor- 

 porated ; 297 coins from the Freudenthal Collection have been registered. 



40 coins and medals from the Bank Collection have been registered, and 93 have been 

 incorporated. 229 slips have been Avritten, giving references to the undated and personal 

 medals in the Collection. 29 labels have been placed in the cabinets of sceattas. 



A series of Saxon and English coins has been selected to be electrotyped. 



4. Mediaval and Modern Series : — 



149 coins and medals, acquired during the past and in re6ent years, have been 

 registered, and 97 have been incorporated. 34 coins and medals from the Bank Collec- 

 tion have been registered and incorporated. 



56 coins and tickets from the Freudenthal Collection have been registered. 



127 lead medals have been selected from those exhibited in the King's Library and 

 from those in the Department to be cleaned and cast, and of most of these, electrotypes 

 have been taken. 



Kectifications have been made in the French series ("royal and baronial) in accordance 

 with M. Hoffmann's Monnaies royales de France and other recently published works. 

 The series of the smaller German coins has been expanded, nine cabinets having been re- 

 arranged. The unincorporated coins and medals from the Bank Collection have been 

 arranged in numbered trays. 



A list haa been drawn up of the trays containing unincorporated coias from the 

 Freudenthal Collection. 



The foreign medals exhibited in the King's Library, and the labels beneath them, have 

 been secured in their places by pins. 



Several collections of coins and some important collections of Italian medals hare been 

 examined. 



5. Oriental Series : — 



187 coins, acquired during the past and in previous years, have been registered, and 

 135 have been incorporated. 



2,427 coins of China and the Farther East have been registered. 

 The coins of the Moghuls of Persia have been re-arranged with fresh heading cards. 

 0.65. D 13 trays 



