36 ACCOUNTS, Sec, OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM. 



" raetatls; " a glazed case for a New Zealand feather cloak, made and fixed in position, 

 and the doors of two of the wall-cases have been taken off, and replaced with locks and 

 hinges. 



The combined Ethnographical Collections of the Museum and the Christy Collection 

 have been examined, with a view to eliminate duplicate specimens. These dupjicates 

 have been roughly classed, and stowed away in cupboards, but will have to be carefully 

 gone over before they can be disposed of". 



A number of ethnographical and otlier objects have been repaired and mounted, and 

 those liable to decay have been boiled in Avax, or treated in other ways to arrest or pre- 

 vent deterioration. 



The collection of Oriental pottery and porcelain, presented to the Museum in 1878 by 

 A. W. Franks, Esq., and which, until the past year, has been on exhibition at the Bethnal 

 Green Branch of the South Kensington Museum, has now been received at the British 

 Museum. The collection consists (after the removal of the duplicates and a few reserved 

 specimens) of 1,613 pieces, in the following sections, viz. : — Chinese 928, Siamese, Corean, 

 &c., 16, and Japanese 669. Of this portion a catalogue was prepared by Mr. Franks, and 

 published by the Department of Science and Art in 1878. 



Mr. Franks has now added considerably to his former gift, and the additional speci- 

 mens amount to 1,801 pieces, in the following classes, viz.: Chinese 903, Siamese, Corean, 

 &c. 26, Japanese 872. 



This collection, numbering in all 3,414 pieces, illustrates very fairly the ceramic indus- 

 try of the Far East, and includes examples of most of the factories, from an early time to 

 the present day. Among the additions may be specially noticed a number of vases and 

 fragments found In ancient kitchen-middens and tombs in Japan, some of which may 

 be of a very remote antiquity. 



The collection has now been roughly arranged in the Oriental Saloon, occupying one- 

 half of the wall-cases of the room, and three upright central cases. The fittino-s for the 

 latter are in progress, and will shortly be completed. 



The continuation of the book-case in the outer study of the department has been com- 

 pleted. 



Plinths have been made for two Roman milestones; sixteen general labels have been 

 painted, and seventy-nine antiquities of bronze and ii'on mounted on tablets. 



Eighty locks of the new suite have been fitted on table-case bases. 



The permanent catalogue on slips of the Ethnographical Collections has been continued, 

 and one hundred and twenty rfive specimens described, with a careful sketch of each object. 



The registration has been much impeded by the more pressing demands of arrangement 

 in the public galleries ; but one hundred and three objects have been registered. 



II. — A cqidsUions. 



(1.) Early British and Prehistoric Antiquities: — 



A collection of flint implements from the Drift beds of England, including an inter- 

 esting series collected by Mr. Worthington G. Smith from the Valley of the Thames in 

 North London. Described, with figures, in the " Journal of the Anthroi^ological Institute," 

 vol. xiii., p. 357. 



A flint celt found on the Needwood Forest lands, co. Stafford, by Mr. J, Fountain, 

 and presented by C. E. Boothby, Esq. A barbed flint arrowhead found at Frilford near 

 Abingdon, presented by Philip Aldworth, Esq. 



Two early British food vessels and a bronze knife, found in kists In a cairn at Amble, 

 Northumberland, presented by Messrs, Green and Douglas. A food vessel containing 

 burnt bones found at Hexham, Northumberland, presented by Miss K. W. Dods. 



Grinding stone or muller found in ballast at StiiFord, Essex, presented by the Rev. W. 

 Palin. 



Bracer or wrist-guard of stone with gold studs, found in a barrow at Kellythorpe, 

 East Riding, Yorkshire, and figured in " Archfeologia," xliii., p. 427 ; a British gold arm- 

 let with pendent rings, and part of a bronze dagger, found in GrantaFen, co. Cambridge. 

 From the Londesborough Collection. 



A flat celt of fine green stone, probably from Scotland, mounted in silver, as a charm, 

 in the 17th century, and a bronze palstave, found at Fairford, co. Gloucester, presented 

 by A. W. Franks, Esq. 



Stone with Ogham inscriptions, known as the " Deelish Stone," and figured in Brash's 

 " Ogam Monuments," p. 122, pi. v., presented by Richard Caalfield, Esq., ll.d. 



The foreign illustrations of this section include the following : — 



A Late Celtic iron sword and part of its sheath from Miribel, Ain, France, presented 

 by A. W. Franks, Esq. 



A collection of bronze knives and other objects found in ancient graves near Krasno- 

 yarsk, Siberia, and figured by the donor in his work, " Siberia in Asia." Presented by 

 Henry Seebohm, Esq., F.z.s. A flat ring of serpentine from a grave near Shanghai, pre- 

 sented by Charles Gould, Esq. 



(2.) Anglo- 



