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4. MedicBval and Modern Series: — 



(Purchased). 

 Seven fine Italian medals of the Eenaissance. 



5. Oriental Series: — 



(Purchased). 



A o-old coin of Kashgar, of Ya'akoob Khan, in the name of the Turkish Sultan 

 Abd-el-'Azeez, a.h. 1292. 



A gold coin of Humayoon, Mogul Emperor of India. 

 10 rare silver coins of the Arabs of Spain. 

 A rare silver coin of a Prince of Caramania. 



(Presented). 



A series of 27 silver and 14 copper coins of Afghanistan, Beloochistan, Kashmeer, &c. 

 Presented by C E. Pitman, Esq. ^ 



Four silver coins of the Arabs of Africa and Spam. Presented by John Evans, 

 Esq., F.R.S. 



Two gold coins of the 'Abbasee Dynasty. Presented by H. B. M. Consul Henderson, 



Aleppo. 



III. — Catalogues. 

 1. Greek Series: — 



The Catalogue of the coins of the Ptolemies is in the press. 



A new edition of the Guide to the select Greek and Roman Coins, exhibited in 

 electrotype, is in the press. 



2 and 3. English, Mediceval, and Modern Series: — 



Guides to the English and Italian Medals, exhibited in the King's Library, are in 

 the press. 



4. Oriental Series : — 



Volume V. of the Catalogue, containing the coins of the Moors of Africa and Spain, &c., 

 has been published, and Volume VI. is about to appear. 



The number of visitors to the Medal Room in 1880 was 1,689. 

 The number of visitors to the Gold Ornament Room was 19,828. 



Reginald Stuart Poole. 



Departments op Natural History. 



In the past year an addition of 91,665 specimens has been made to the Natural History, 

 of which 24,283 have been received in the Department of Zoology, 55,496 in that of 

 Geology, 460 in that of Mineralogy, and 11,426 in that of Botany. 



All the specimens in these several Departments are in a state of preservation. 



Titles of the Printed Catalogues which have been issued during the year 1880 by the 

 Department of Zoology are specified in the Report of the Keeper, in whose Department 

 the usual works of conservation and determination of specimens for Registry and 

 Description have kept pace with the accessory labours connected with the impending 

 removal of the specimens to the British Museum of Natural History, Cromwell Road. 



These labours have been Imposed upon the Department in relation to facilitating works 

 in progress for providing additional space for certain " Antiquities " which are retained in 

 the Museum at Bloomsbury ; they have necessitated the removal of the Books, Documents, 

 Specimens, and other objects which occupied the Officers' offices, the studies and store- 

 rooms, in the basement of the Building heretofore assigned to the Zoology, and the 

 transference of the same to temporary spaces for their reception which have been afforded 

 on the upper floor of the British Museum, by the offices, studies, store-rooms, and a 

 portion of the Mineralogical Gallery, vacated by the Departments of Geology and 

 Mineralogy. 



Nevertheless, opportunities of adding new and interesting specimens to the Zoological 

 Series, still open to the Public, at Bloomsbury, have been availed of ; as in the stuffed 

 and mounted specimen of the Sea-Lion ( Otaria Forsteri), and in that of the Californian 

 Maned Wolf {Canis jubaius). 



The exhibited heads, preserved in spirit, of the adult Male and Female of the Orang- 

 utan of Borneo {Simia Satgrus) afford striking exemplification, imperfectly given in the 

 dry and stuffed specimens, of the strange physiognomy and strongly marked sexual 

 distinctions of that species of large Anthropoid Ape. 



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