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Larpent, S. " Le Jugement de Paris, atti-ibue au Glorglone" ; Christiania, 1880, 8vo 

 Presented by the Author. 



Scharf, George, C.B., f.s.a. " On a Votive Painting of St. George and the Dragon, 

 with kneeling figures of Henry VII., his Queen, and Children"; London, 1886, 4to. 

 Presented hy the Author. 



Scharf, George, C.B., f.s.a. A Paper read before the Society of Antiquaries, 15 June 

 187G, on portraits of Mary Tudor and Mary Queen of Scots. Presented h^i the Author. 



Tiffin, Walter, B. " Catalogue of a Collection of English Portraits in Mezzotint. 

 Addenda, No. 2; Salisbury, 1886. Two copies. Presented by the Author. 



Sidney Colvin. 



Department of Egyptian and Assyrian Antiquities. 



I. — Arrangement and Cataloguing. 

 Egyptian Division : — 



Seven bronze and four granite figures, seven tablets, a bowl, a lintel, three shelves, 

 four inscriptions, and twelve fragments of others have been mounted on plinths of Port- 

 land, or Caen stone, or polished marble ; the upper part of a queeu has been re-mounted 

 on a granite pedestal and has been fitted witli a glass shade ; forty fragments of 

 sculpture have been inlaid in stone ; a Caen stone coffin has been made ; one torso, one 

 tablet, and one inscribed slab have been repaired, and the tablet has been fixed on corbels ; 

 two j^apyri and two fragments of sculpture have been affixed to the walls of the 

 galleries ; the sculptures have been dusted and washed ; the position of the mummies and 

 other objects on exhibition has been chaniied as found necessary. 



An ivory figure of Bes lias been cleaned and repaired ; a bronze figure and dish have 

 heen cleaned ; eight type impressions of inscriptions and one hundred and eighty casts of 

 " Gnostic" gems have been made, and the casts bound in gilt-edged paper. 



Nine pieces of inscribed pottery, one vase, one bead, a terracotta model of a house and 

 an ivory figure have been joined ; a model knife has been repaired ; five papyri and many 

 fragments of others have been unrolled and some of the fragments have been pasted on 

 paper ; one mummy cloth, five papyri, and five fragments of others have been mounted : 

 three papyri have been re-mounted; the mounted objects in the cases and the scarabaei 

 containing royal names have been chronologically arranged ; terracotta and porcelain figures 

 have been mounted on stands and pedestals of mahogany or satin-wood, and framed with 

 tiles, gems, and other objects on wooden tablets covei'ed with red cloth or velvet ; frames for 

 Coptic and other stones have been prepared and fixed; Avainscot and deal fittings for a 

 bamboo case, templets and wainscot-stands for figures in the Egyptian Gallery, and 

 mahogany labels have been made ; an oak base has been fitted under the head of a queen 

 in the Egyptian Gallery ; a table-case has been provided with false bottoms ; the 

 fittings of another table-case and tlie shelves in the studies have been altered and repaired ; 

 some of the plaster-casts in the Egyptian Room have been taken down ; and locks have 

 been placed on papyri frames. 



Five hundred and five objects have been catalogued and drawings made of many of 

 them ; six hundred and ninety-seven objects of the various collections have been 

 registered ; five hundred and sixteen labels have been written for miscellaneous objects 

 including gems, scarabaei, &c., the papyri have been sorted, arranged, and numbered, 

 preparatory to the making of a catalogue ; a complete hand list of the Plieroglyphic, 

 Hieratic and Demotic papyri has been made, thus rendering them easily accessible to 

 students ; transcripts have been made of portions of eight papyri ; some bowls bearing 

 Mandaitic inscriptions have been examined, and one of these inscriptions, together 

 with a Coptic inscription, copied ; researches have been made towards the continuation 

 of the French publication " Corpus Inscriptionum Semiticarum " ; three thousand eight 

 hundred and eighty-nine numbers have been printed and four thousand and thirty- 

 three attached to objects ; one thousand six hundred and thirty-three pressmarks have 

 been printed in duplicate and affixed to papyri ; the list of registration lunnbers has been 

 continued; four hundred and fifty-nine labels have been painted; the Guide to the 

 Mummy Room has been continued ; the revision of the text of the " Coffin of Amamu " 

 has been completed, and the entire worlc published. Descriptive catalogues of the 

 Egyptian papyri are in course of preparation. 



Assyrian Division:— 



A fragment of an inscription has been fixed in the Assyrian Gallery; two glass shades 

 have been made for the statues of Nebo ; a Portland-stone plinth has been prepared for 

 the glazing of sculpture ; the sculptures in the galleries have been dusted and washed ; 

 twenty-one tablets have been repaired and eighty -three joined ; two hundred and eighty- 

 four tablets, one cylinder and two bronzes have been cleaned; a case-tablet has been 

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