ACCOUNTS, &C,, OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM. 



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"V^J-- A series of thirty-one fictile vases of various periods, two terracotta lamps, and a 

 terracotta head broken from a statuette. 



Presented by Admiral Lord Clarence Paget. 

 VIT. — 1. Terracotta relief, representing a seated male figure ; from Athens. 

 2. An archaic' terracotta statuette of a horse, painted with geometric patterns. 



Presented by Cecil Torr, Esg. 



VIII. Bronze weight, dodekadrachma, acquired by Mr. Calvert from a peasant at 

 Corinth. 



Presented by A. Gilbertson, Esq. 



IX. Two terracotta tablets, similar to those already described (see ante, IV., 7-8). 



Presented by J. Reddie Anderson, Esq. 



X. Six moulds of coins in terracotta, being part of a series of two hundred and sixty- 

 two found in the Fayoum ; four are fi-om coins of Licinius I., and two from coins of 

 Constantine I. 



Presented by Mrs. Sharp. 



XI. Fragment of wall painting, excavated in the Coliseum at Rome. 



Presented by Lady M''olff. 



XII. — Cast, in bronze, of the group of Hermes, with the infant Dionysos, from the 

 plaster restoration of that group by Miss Halse recently presented to the Museum. 



Presented by Mr. George Halse. 



XIII. Cast of a bust of JSTiobe now in the possession of Lord Yarborough. 

 Presented by the Authorities of tlie South Kensington Museum. 



C. T. Newton. 



Department of British and Medieval Antiquities and Ethnography. 



I. — Arrangement. 



In consequence of the space obtained by the removal of the Zoological collections to 

 the new Museum, the changes in this department during the past year have been very 

 considerable, and may be summarized as follows : — 



The arrangement of the Anglo-Roman and Anglo-Saxon Rooms was finally completed 

 at Easter last, and the rooms opened to the public. 



The Eastern Zoological Gallery having been repainted, the contents of the Ethno- 

 graphical Room have been removed into it, and united with the ethnographical portion 

 of the Christy Collection, and the series thus formed is in the course of classification and 

 arrangement. Twenty new table-cases have been placed in this room, eighteen of which 

 are on temporary supports, awaiting the completion of the bases. Sixteen old table- 

 cases have also been placed in the gallery, the woodwork being repolished and locks of 

 the new suite fitted on them. 



The collections of glass, and of Italian and other medieval pottery, hitherto in the 

 British and Medieval Room, together with the central cases belonging to them, have 

 been removed to the former Ethnographical Room, such specimens in the Henderson 

 Collection as are of the same nature having been incorporated with them, and the whole 

 re-arranged. 



The former Southern Zoological Gallery having been repainted, and the locks of the 

 wall-cases altered to the new suite, the medieval antiquities have been removed into this 

 room, together Avith eight table-cases, and the few portraits painted in oil remaining in 

 the Museum have been hung on the walls. The arrangement of the collection had been 

 commenced, but was interrupted by the necessity of admitting more light into the wall- 

 cases by means of opening in the tops. This has now been done, and it is hoped that the 

 re-arrangement will shortly be completed. Two new table-cases have been added to this 

 room, and upon one of the old ones a narrow metal case has been fixed. 



The remainder of the contents of the British and Medieval Room has been removed 

 into the Prehistoric Saloon, from which the Henderson, Meyrick, and Bui-ges Collections 

 have been removed, and incorporated with the various sections to which the sjiecimens 

 belong ; and one portion of the Prehistoric series, the Greenwell Collection, has been 

 arranged. The walls of the Prehistoric Saloon have been repainted, and locks of the 

 new suite put to such of the wall-cases as required them. Three old table-cases have 

 been rem.oved to this saloon. 



The walls of the former Mammalian Saloon have been repainted, and the locks of the 

 wall-cases altered to the new suite, and plate glass has been substituted for common glass 

 where necessary. It is intended to arrange in this saloon the collections of Oriental art. 



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