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head, mounted in gold, on which is the legend Clausa secreta tego ; found in Bed- 

 fordshire. Figured in King's Engraved Gems, p. 135, and the Archaeological Journal, 

 vol. xxi. p. 335. 



Four bronze matrices of seals, found at Oxford, Faversham, and Waltham Abbey ; and 

 a silver box containing a number of counters, with heads of Charles II. and his Queen, 

 etc. ; presented by A. W. Franks, Esq. 



SJlver-gi!t scissors case, sleeve links, and thimble, all with portraits of Charles II. ; 

 ]>resented by M. Rohde Hawkins, Esq. 



(4.) Early Christian, Byzantine, Foreign MedicRval, ^c. — Bronze box and cover in the 

 form of a bird, found in an ancient Christian catacomb in Calabria ; presented by Signer 

 Alessandro Castellani, of Rome. 



Four engraved gems — one early Christian, two Byzantine, and one Italian cinque- 

 cento. 



Base of a brass candlestick of Mosul work, inlaid with arabesque designs in silver. 



A chesspiece, a king, carved in walrus ivory, of early work; presented by IvI. Rohde 

 Hawkins, Esq. 



A wooden figure of St. Francis, and three ivory figures of saints, of Portuguese work ; 

 presented by the Rev. Greville J. Chester. 



A flat stone, with ornament engraved in intaglio, probably a mould for Turkish metal 

 work ; presented by A. W. Franks, Esq. 



The specimens forming the Burgea Bequest, which belong to this section, will be 

 noticed separately. 



(5.) Glass Collection. — Bottle with triple neck, found in Crete. 



Five important specimens acquired at the sale of the late M. Disch. of Cologne. They 

 were chiefly found in that city, and are mostly engraved in the Transactions of the 

 Bhenish Society of Antiquaries. They consist of the following examples : — An object 

 in the form of a Roman helmet with coloured details. Fragment of a large bowl with 

 coloured bosses, on which are early Christian designs in gold, among which are, Adam 

 and Eve, Jonah, the Three Children, etc. A globular bottle cut to imitate rock crystal, 

 with a Greek inscription round it. A very fine shallow bowl of purple glass, with moulded 

 ornaments. A shallow bowl of greenish glass, with a cross in the centre, Avith ornament 

 engraved on the wheel. 



Six Roman vessels, of unusual forms, found at Cologne, and two German glasses, all 

 from the Disch Collection ; presented by A. W. Franks, Esq. 



A mosque lamp of Arab glass with enamelled flowers, brought from Egypt ; presented 

 by A. W. Franks, Esq. 



A glass hand-grenade, from Rhodes ; presented by Admiral Lord Clarence Paget, r.n. 



A bottle, with painted figure of St. Nicholas of Bari ; presented by Henry Griffith, 

 Esq. 



Five glass vessels, made to imitate in style the early Phoenician glass, and a section of 

 glass cane, containing a portrait of Count Cavour ; made and presented by the Venice and 

 Murano Glass and Mosaic Company, 



A drinking glass, probably of Flemish make, found in an old house at Bruges ; presented 

 by W. H. James Weale, Esq. 



{6.) Oriental and Ethnographicnl. — A number of terra-cotta medallions, with inscrip- 

 tions in Pali character, found in the village of Pasgammana, Ceylon ; presented by James 

 Gibson Starke, Esq. 



Four Indian bronze groups of Hindu divinities, with inscriptions, believed to be of the 

 12th century. 



Three Arab silver plates, with cabalistic inscriptions, and an Indian dagger, inlaid 

 with silver ; presented by A. W. Franks, Esq. 



A tiger trap, from Amoy ; presented by George Brown, Esq. 



Specimens obtained during the Basuto war in 1881, from Tsita Village ; presented by 

 W. T. Damon, Esq., of Cape Town. 



"Wooden vessel, from Western Australia ; presented by Frederick C. Shaw, Esq. 



Model of a canoe, from New Hebrides; presented by J. Malcolm Lenox, Esq., of Cicia 

 Island, Fijian Group. 



Stone axehead, found by the donor at Charlevoix, Michigan ; presented by John 

 Nicholls, Esq., of Charlevoix. 



Ancient Peruvian stone cup, and part of another ; presented by Richard Inwards, 

 Esq. 



Ancient Peruvian vase of grey ware ; presented by J. A. Simson, Esq. 



Stone " metatl " and roller, stone collar, and fragment of sculpture, from Copan, Hon- 

 duras, Central America; presented by Osbert Salvin, Esq. 



Stone seat, from Guayaquil, Ecuador ; presented by James Lloyd Ashbury, Esq. 



