22 ACCOUMTS, &C., OF THE BRITISH MU8BUM. 



A marble obelisk witli Phoenician inscription has been mountedj and temporarily placed 

 in the Nimroud Gallery. 



A stone bowl has been repaired. 



Fittings have been made for wall and table-cases in the Egyptian Rooms in the 

 Northern Gallery. 



Part of the labels on the granite plinths have been removed. 



Some tablets have been re-arranged in the Egyptian Galleries. 



Portions of the Papyri on the North-west staircase have been removed for incorporation, 

 and a long Papyrus has been fixed on the wall. 



The Galleries and rooms in the basement have been dusted and cleaned. 



Three frames with locks have been made for Papyri, also fourteen frames for fragments 

 of stone and other objects. 



Sixty-seven dozen mahogany mounting tablets have been made. 



Thirty-six Egyptian figures have been mounted on wooden j^edestals. 



Two Egyptian figures, one gold and one silver, have been cleaned, repaired, and 

 mounted. 



A silver eye has been fixed in a bronze statue. 



Nine Egyptian gold figures have been mounted. 



Thirty-six porcelain figures have been mounted. 



Eighty-eight figures, beads, and other objects have been mounted. 



Pour bead necklaces have been mounted. 



Forty-three scarabsei have been mounted. 



Sixty-one pendants of necklaces have been mounted. 



561 various Egyptian objects have been mounted. 



One Papyrus has been unrolled, and fragments of others have been arranged for 

 mounting. 



141 fragments of glazed tiles from Tel-el-Yahoudeh have been mounted. 



Two Egyptian terra-cottas and one stone cylinder have been repaired. 



Cases and objects have been re-arranged in New Egyptian rooms in the Northern 

 Gallery. 



Egyptian guides have been revised. 



The fac-similes of the cofiin of Amam have been completed, and progress has been 

 made in its description. 



Lectures have been delivered to societies visiting the Museum. 



325 objects have been catalogued. 



Descriptive slips have been inserted in MS. Catalogue. 



11,490 registration numbers have been attached to objects. 



The Departmental Correspondence from 1868 to 1881, comprising about 8,000 letters, 

 has been arranged and bound in volumes. 



-A portion of the Departmental Library has been re-arranged. 



Tracings, inventories, and copies of documents have been made. 



In the A ssyrian division : — 



Progress has been made in glazing the sculptures of the Assyrian basement. 



The plinths in the Assyrian Galleries have been washed, and the labels on them 

 improved. 



Shelves have been prepared for the temporary room in the Northern Gallery. 



Two cases with drawers have been made for holding inscribed Babylonian tablets. 



166 Babylonian and Assyrian inscribed tablets have been repaired and preserved. 



One brick has been repaired. 



Nine cylinders have been repaired. 



One stone has been repaired. 



Eleven engraved stones have been mounted. 



Thirty-two Assyrian and Babylonian stone cylinders have been mounted. 



Eight Assyrian tablets have been moulded. 



Eighteen casts of Assyrian tablets have been made. 



Sixty-three boxes of antiquities from excavations at Kouyunjik and Abu Habbah have 

 been received in the Department. Of these, 33 have been opened, the rest await further 

 space, pending the removal of the Natural History collections. 



The early Babylonian case-tablets have been examined and labelled. 



A collection of tablets and other objects acquired in 1881 has been registered. 



The dated contract-tablets received in the course of the year have been partly arranged 

 in chronological order. 



An inventory has been made of part of the collections received from Assyria and 

 Mesopotamia in the course of the year. 



A translation has been executed of a cylinder of Sennacherib. 



One collection received in the course of the year has been registered. 



A guide to the contents of the Kouyunjik Gallery has been partly carried through the 

 press. 



Lectures have been given to classes of students. 



228 labels have been written and attached to objects. 



1,111 objects have been registered. 



II. Acquisitions, 



