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III. — Christy Collection. 



Two hundi-ed and seventy-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: — 



1. Prehistoric Antiquities of Europe : — 



Seven Drift implements from various parts of England, presented by R. B. 

 Darbishire, Esq., f.s.a. 



Four Drift implements from the Valley of the Axe, and two from Wanslead Flats, 

 presented by A. W. Franks, Esq. 



An unusually small Drift implement from the Axe Valley, presented by A. Dallas, Esq. 



A javelin-head of bone engraved with figures of the ibex, from the station at Les 

 Eyzies, Doixlogne, presented by M. Peccadeau de ITsle. 



Chisel shaped arrowhead of flint, a bone with engraved ornament, and a bone spearhead 

 set with flints, from Denmark, and a flint arrowhead mounted as an amulet from Italy, 

 presented by A. W. Franks, Esq. 



2. Ethnography of Afi-ica : — 



Ivory cover of a cup, made on the Congo in the 16th centuiy, under Portuguese in- 

 fluence; two wood necklaces from South Africa, a Bushman bow and two quivers of 

 arrows ; and a considerable series of specimens from the Zambesi and other parts 

 of Eastern Africa, chiefly collected by Mr. J. T. Last ; all presented by A. W. 

 Franks, Esq. 



3. Ethnography of Asia : — 



A wooden musical instrument from Burmah, a Japanese sword and several other 

 oriental weapons ; and a number of Javanese and Suinatran weapons and objects, pre- 

 sented by A. W. Franks, Esq. 



4. Ethnography of Oceania and Australasia : — 



A stone adze blade found under 15 feet of guano on Flint's Island, now uninhabited, 

 presented by the Rev. W. Greenwell, d.c.l,, f.r.s. A gourd for containing food made 

 from pigeons, from New Zealand, presented by Sir Julius von Haast, K.c.M.G. 



A New Zealand carved box, a comb, and a jade ear pendant; and a stone pounder from 

 the Hawaiian Islands, presented by A. W. Franks, Esq. 



A model of a New Guinea canoe, five carved clubs from New Ireland, an armlet from 

 the Solomon Group, and three knives of tortoiseshell, presented by A. W. Franks, Esq. 



5. Antiquities and Ethnography of America : — 



A chalchiuitl of Amazon stone, a Mexican mask of serpentine ; a diminutive Mexican 

 bead in malachite ; two stone implements from Peru, and a bone pin from Oregon, 

 presented by A. W. Franks, Esq. 



A very valuable collection of stone implements, including a series of haematite 

 implements, from North America, presented by Andrew E. Douglass, Esq., of New 

 York. 



A number of arrows in a wooden case, and a carved spoon of horn, from the North 

 West Coast ; 10 bead purses and a pouch made of the skin of a musk rat from the North 

 American Indians, presented by A. W. Franks, Esq. 



A scraper made of shell, from Tierra del Fuego, presented by Francis Brent, Esq. 



The Trustees of the Christy Collection have purchased, from funds at their disposal, 

 some models in brass from Lagos, West Africa, and the well-known collection of the 

 Reindeer period formed by M. Peccadeau de I'lsle. These objects were discovered by 

 M. Peccadeau at Bruniquel on the banks of the River Aveyron, and nearly opposite to 

 the cave excavated by the Viscount de Lastic, whose collections from this spot are 

 already in the Museum. The most important objects in the Peccadeau Collection are 

 the three sculptures in the round, two of them representing reindeer and the other a 

 mammoth, and a number of drawings upon stone, some of which show great artistic 

 power. This acquisition renders the collection at the Museum of ancient cave remains 

 the most complete that is known to archajologists. 



Augustus IV. Franks. 

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