ACCOUNTS, &C., OF THE BHITISH MUSEUM. 3Q 



The arrangement of the several sections of Asiatic Islands has been revised, to make 

 room for the two large series from the Andaman and Nicobar Islands. 



An upright central case in this gallery has been removed into the Glass and Ceramic 

 Gallery, and its contents re-ai-ranged in a table-case transferred from the Print Depart- 

 ment. The locks of this latter case have been altered to the new suite of the department, 

 and the inside lined with merino. 



Ten bases of table-cases have been received and placed in position ; four of them bein"' 

 in the new American Room. 



Two boulders with picked designs, from South Africa, have been mounted and placed 

 on the tops of the cases. 



Two general labels have been painted. 



Asiatic Saloon. Advantage has been taken of the operations connected with the 

 removal of the upper range of wall-cases from the Saloon to tlie Ethnographical Gallery, 

 to clean the specimens in the cases beneath (Cases 55-74). The whole of the objects in 

 these cases, comprising Japanese porcelain, and Chinese pottery and porcelain, were 

 removed and washed. Before replacing them, openings were made in the tops of the 

 cases and fitted with glass, the doors were examined and edged with ribbon velvet to 

 exclude dust, the specimens replaced, and, where necessary, re-arranged. 



A central case has been erected for the Indian Swamy Car, and the car cleaned and 

 placed in it. 



Twelve Chinese drawings illustrating the manufacture of porcelain have been mounted, 

 framed, and labelled. 



Seventeen Buddhist sculptures have been mounted on plinths ; a Siamese bronze has 

 been mounted on a plinth and labelled, and a Chinese bronze bell has been labelled. 



Sixty-five type impressions of seals have been made ; 27 specimens of pottery 

 have been repaired ; and an iron buckler and eight ancient iron weapons from Spain have 

 been boiled in wax. 



Three hundred and seven ethnographical specimens have been described for the 

 permanent Slip Catalogue, with a drawing of each object. 



One hundred and four card labels have been printed with the hand press in the depart- 

 ment, with duplicates of each. 



II. —Acquisi/ions. 



(1.) Early British and Prehistoric Antiquities : — 



Three large sepulchral urns (one of them of unusual size), three smaller, and a drinking 

 cup with one handle, and other antiquities, discovered in barrows in Cornwall. These 

 were collected by W. C, Borlase, Esq., and described by him in " Nenia Cornubiae" 

 (London, 1872). 



Two British urns, portions of a third, and other remains, excavated by J. C. Priestley, 

 Esq., and F. G. Hilton Price, Esq., f.s.a., in a barrow in the parish of Colwinston, 

 Glamorganshire, on the estate of the donor, Mrs, Collins Pritchard. 



Sets of flint cores and flakes from six different localities in Devonshire and Cornwall, 

 collected and presented by Francis Brent, Esq. 



Flint " fabricator " and bone object from the Thames, presented by G. F. Lawrence, Esq. 



A bronze palstave found at King's Lynn, Norfolk. 



A remarkable collection of objects of the Late Celtic period, found in one or more graves 

 at Aylesford, Kent, and consisting of a large bucket with bronze ornaments, a bronze 

 ewer, and a saucepan, as well as personal ornaments, pottery, &c. Also the remains of 

 another bucket, and remains of pottery vases, from the same spot, presented by John 

 Hale, Esq., jun. 



The foreign illustrations of this section have received the following additions: — 



A bronze spear-head found between Catania and Palermo, presented by Captain S. 

 Polkinghorne. A Danish urn, and a bronze pin from the Swiss lakes. 



Iron weapons of an early period found at Almedinilla, near Cordova, Spain, presented 

 by the Baron de Cosson. 



Celt of haematite, found between Rohr and Makraka, Eastern Africa, presented by Sir 

 Henry W. Gordon, K.c.B. 



A large collection of stone implements from India, presented by General Sir Alexander 

 Cunningham. 



Two very ancient vessels of pottery from Japan, presented by E. M. Satow, Esq., 

 c.M.G,, H.B.M. Minister at Bangkok. 



(2.) Anglo'Roman : — 



Bronze figure of a sea horse found at Carlisle, and a rase of Durobrivian ware from 

 Westow Fen, Mildenhall, Suffolk. 



Bowl of grey ware with engraved ornament, from Jordan Hill, Weymouth, presented 

 by T. VV. U. Robinson, Esq., f.s.a. Vase of black ware from a Romano-British village 

 at Rotherley, Wilts, excavated and presented by General Pitt-Rivers, d.c.l., f.r.s. 



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