44 ACCOUNTS, &C., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM. 



Large vessels of pottery and wood from Lagos, received from the West African section. 

 Colonial and Indian Exhibition. 



3. Ethnography of Asia : — 



Two spears and a knife from Ceylon, two sabres and three powder-horns from Burmah 

 or Siam, a Javanese dagger and other specimens from the Asiatic Archipelago, presented 

 by A. W. Franks, Esq, 



Two vessels made from the roots of a tree from Afghanistan, and specimens of paper and 

 articles made from it, pi'esented by the Director of the Royal Gardens, Kew. 



4. Ethnographjj of Oceania and Australasia : — 



An Australian spearhead of stone, of rare form, and a Tongan club, from the Lon- 

 desborough collection ; specimens from New Guinea, and a number of objects collected 

 in the Solomon Group, by Mr. C. Morris Woodford ; all presented by A. W. Franks, 



Esq. 



5. Antiquities and Ethnography of America : — 



Head of a jaguar in jadeite, ancient Mexican; a sei-ies of stone axes from the Virgin 

 Islands, a club from Guiana and one from North America, presented by A. W. Franks, 

 Esq. 



An axe blade of shell from Barbados, presented by the Rev. Greville J. Chester. 



A number of objects made by the civilised Indians of North America, presented by the 

 Director of the Royal Gardens, Kew. 



Augustus IV. Franks. 



Department of Coins and Medals. 



I. — Registration and Arrangement. 



i. Greek Series: — 



337 coins recently acquired, of various parts of the Greek world, have been registered 

 and incorporated. 



236 tickets giving references to the Catalogue of the Coins of Peloponnesus, have been 

 written and placed in the trays beneath the specimens. 



The Coins of Heraclea, NicEea, Nicomedia, and of the Bithynian Kings, have been 

 re-arranged in j)reparation for the Catalogue of the Coins of Bithynia, and those of 

 Clazomenfe, Colophon, and Erythrae in preparation for the Catalogue of the Coins of 

 Ionia. 



39 Plates of plaster casts have been prepared for the illustration of the Catalogue 

 Pontus — Bithynia. 



Rectifications, in accordance with recent numismatic publications, including Vol. I. 

 of the Catalogue of Greek coins in the Berlin Museum, have been made in several series, 

 including the following: Diuni (Macedonia), Olbia (Sarmatia), Pherse, Dyme, Larissa 

 (Aeolis), Hieropolis-Castabala, Ceramus, Etenna, Hierapytna, Pyranthus. 



16 coins, hitherto classed as " Uncertain," have been identified and inserted in their 

 places. 



The modern forgeries of Greek and other coins have been arranged together in a new 

 cabinet. 



The electrotypes of Select Greek coins exhibited in the North Gallery have been 

 repaired. 



The duplicate coins of the jEgean Islands have been transferred to the cabinets con- 

 taining duplicate Greek coins. 



Among the collections and series of Greek coins examined with a view to selecting 

 specimens for the Museum are : a collection belonging to Mr. Frere, of Roydon Hall, 

 Diss ; a series of autonomous and Greek Imperial coins from Constantinople; a collection 

 of Bactrian coins; the Greek and Indo-Greek series, in the collection of Sir Alexander 

 Cunningham. 



The coins of Philip II. of Macedon, Alexander the Great, Philip Arida3us and 

 Lysimachus, have been compared with Mliller's " Numismatique d" Alexandre" &c., and 

 lists of the Museum coins not given by Miiller, have been drawn up and forwarded to the 

 editor of the Berlin " Ccpus Numorum," now In preparation. 



Lists have also been drawn up for the same purpose of all the varieties in the British 

 Museum of the coins of the later Macedonian Kings, from Cassander to Perseus. 



2. Roman 



