32 ACCOUNTS, &0,; OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM. 



A series of stone implements and several fragments of pottery from mines at Eemedios 

 Antioquia, United States of Colombia ; from fi. B. White, Esq. 



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

 the ethnographical sections of the collection of tobacco pipes formed by Mr. William 

 Bragge, f.S.a., and of which a privately printed catalogue was issued by him in 1881. 



The Christy Collection will be closed finally during the year 1883, as soon as the 

 removal of the Zoological collections from the British Museum has advanced sufficiently 

 to make room for it. During the past year there have been 574 visitors. 



Augustus W. Franks. 



Department of Coins and Medals. 

 I. — Arrangement. 



1. Greek Series: — 



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

 and 145 incorporated. 



An arrangement in chronological order has been made in the case of the silver coins of 

 Tarentum, Samos, Antioch, and Ascalon ; in the districts prepared for cataloguing, the 

 coins of Achaia and a portion of those of the Cyclades and of Alexandria have also been 

 arranged. 



225 tickets, with references to the Guide to the Coins of the //?2ciV?i?s, have been written 

 and inserted under the several coins. 



2. Roman Series : — 



A selection of sulphur casts of Eoman Medallions in the Vatican Collection, lately 

 purchased, has been arranged. 



3. English Series : — 



92 coins, medals, and tokens, acquired during the years 1881 and 1882, have been 

 registered, and 156 have been incorporated. 



183 tickets and tokens, from the Freudenthal Collection, have been registered, and 43 

 have been incorporated. 



The coins of the Anglo-Saxon series have been completely re-arranged in a more 

 scientific order, preparatory to their being catalogued. 



A find of English coins from Letchmeie Heath, and another large find of coins of 

 Edward the Confessor, have been examined. 



4. Mediaval and Modem Series : — 



54 coins, medals, and tokens, acquired during the years 1881 and 1882, have been 

 registered, and 47 have been incorporated. 



253 coins and tokens from the Freudenthal Collection have been incorporated. 



The three Carlovingian series of France, Germany, and Italy have been re-arranged. 



The coins of the Freudenthal collection, which, from want of space, cannot at present 

 be incorporated, have been re-arranged so as to correspond in their order with the various 

 series in the general collection ; and numerous cross-references to the Freudenthal Col- 

 lection have been inserted in the latter. 



A series of miscellaneous duplicate coins of modern and other classes has been arranged 

 in a separate cabinet and labelled. 



A series of mediaeval and modern coins, and a large number of foreign patterns and 

 proofs, have been examined. 



5. Oriental Series: — 



3 coins, acquired during the years 1881 and 1882, have been registered and incorpo- 

 rated. 



6 coins, acquired during past years, have been registered, and 1,042 have been incor- 

 porated. 



4 coins from the Marsden Collection, and 9 from the Freudenthal Collection, have 

 been incorporated. 



The series of the Shahs of Persia has been arranged preparatory to being catalogued. 



A collection of Fatimee gold coins, and another of miscellaneous coins, have been 

 examined. 



In the collection of coins from the India Office the following series have beeen re- 

 arranged :— Parthia, Bactria, Indo-Scythic, Sah kings of Guzerat, Gupta of Saurashtran, 

 Rajput kings of Kabul, Assam, Nepal, Shahs of Persia; from the Bactrian and Indo- 

 Scythic series, and that of the Shahs of Persia, 416 coins have been selected for incor- 

 poration in the general collection. 



