32 ACCOUNTS, kc, OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM. 



Twelve specimens of French pottery, including five dishes made by Bernard Palissy, 

 eight pieces of Italian majolica, a terra cotta medallion representing a monk, and a bronze 

 figure of a jester, presented by A. W. Franks, Esq. Two carvings in ivory, presented 

 by Sidney Vacher, Esq. ; six shell cameos, seven glass pastes, and a majolica plaque 

 representing St. Theodora, presented by the Rev. Greville J. Chester. Two carved 

 mother-of-pearl plaques of 15th century work. 



An iron plaque of Ai-menian work, inlaid with gold and silver, perhaps part of a book 

 cover. 



(5.) Glass Collection : — 



An ancient Egyptian bead, presented by Mrs. Skinner. Two ancient Egyptian 

 plaques for inlaying ; a glass bottle fi'om Sidon, two necklaces of beads from Cura^, two 

 bracelets from the Fayoum, and thirty-seven other specimens of glass from the East. 



An Arab bottle and beads, and two vases, probably made in the island of Rhodes, 

 presented by the Rev. Greville J. Chester, 



(6.^ Oriental and Ethnographical : — 



A clay seal found at Wala in Kathiawar, presented by Col. J. W. Watson. Four 

 vessels of pottery and two clay cylinders found in cutting a canal from Rangoon to 

 Twantay, Burmah, presented by Arthur Hough, Esq. A globular pottery vessel found 

 in a barrow S.E. of Prome, Burmah, presented by the Rev. Mr. Stevens ; another vessel 

 from the same locality, presented by Robert Gordon, Esq. 



Bronze objects from Talifu, Yunnan, a Chinese sword mace, and two bamboo "Jew's 

 harps " from Formosa, presented by E. Colborne Baber, Esq. Portion of a human 

 skull with inscriptions, from the Summer Palace, Pekin, presented by E. Gilbertson, Esq. 

 Fifty-one Chinese and Japanese bronzes, and the war dress of a Tartar General, pre- 

 sented by A. W- Franks, Esq. Chinese bronze vase, presented by the Rev. William L. 

 Lawson. Two silver hairpins from Loochoo, and a finger ring from Corea, presented 

 by Ernest Satow, Esq. 



A flask of bi-ass inlaid with silver, Arab work of the l4th century, presented by 

 A. W. Franks, Esq. Forty -three Arab chessmen of ivory and ebony. Carnelian, 

 engraved with the 109th chapter of the Koran, presented by Major General F. W. 

 Stubbs, B.A. Seven stones engraved with Oriental inscriptions, presented by the Rev. 

 Greville J. Chester; and a Turkish pen case of brass, presented by H. J. Sydenham, Esq. 



Sixteen stone celts from Akim and Wassau Mining Districts, West Coast of Africa, 

 presented by A. E. Walton, Esq. Two Kafir snuff bottles from South Africa, presented 

 by Thomas Pike, Esq. 



A wooden carving from New Zealand, presented by Captain Drysdale ; a canoe, with 

 outrigger, from the Hawaiian Islands, presented by A. MacCunu, Esq.; and eight stone 

 axes from the Solomon Islands, presented by the Lords of the Admiralty. 



Seven stone implements from Brazil, presented by Antonio Bangel, Esq. ; a stone 

 roller from Bahia, Brazil, presented by Joseph Mawson, Esq. Sixteen pottery vases 

 and two stone implements from ChiriquI, presented by G. C. Champion, Esq., and tAvo 

 pottery spindle whorls from Tolima, U.S. Colombia, presented by W. D. Powles, Esq. 



An axe and sixteen stone arrowheads from the Katawa Indians, South Carolina, 

 presented by Col. W. Davie ; and two casts of stone implements found in Missouri, 

 presented by the Missouri Historical Society, St. Louis. 



III. — Christy Collection. 



This collection has now been removed to the British Museum, and incorporated with 

 the ethnographical specimens there. 



Four hundred and eighty-two additional slips have been prepared for the Registration 

 Catalogue, with careful sketches of the objects. 



The following donations have been received by the Christy Trustees, and by them 

 transferred to the Trustees of the British Museum : — 



L Prehistoric Antiquities of Europe, Asia, and Afi'ica : — 



A collection of prehistoric remains excavated by the Rev. J. Magens Mello in the 

 bone caves of Creswell Crags, Derbyshire, and described by him in the " Quarterly 

 Journal of the Geological Society," 1877. Presented by A. W. Franks, Esq. 



Two polished stone implements from Rome, and twenty-one from Hierapolis, presented 

 by A. W. Franks, Esq. Stone implements from Sidon and Ras Berut, Syria, and from 

 Denderah and Gizeh, Egypt, presented by the Rev. Greville J. Chester. A series of 

 flint flakes from Helouan, Egypt, presented by Mrs. Sharp. Thirteen stone implements 

 from the West Coast of Africa, presented by Captain C. A. Moloney. 



Chalcedony adze blade from Central Java, presented by H. O. Forbes, Esq. Two 

 stone implements from Japan, presented by A. W. Franks, Esq. 



2. Ethnography of Africa : — 



A fly flap made of an elephant's tail from Central Africa presented by the Rev. 

 Greville J. Chester. 



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