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The registration has been continued, and 4,531 objects have been registered. 



Two hundred and thirty-six ethnographical specimens have been described for the- 

 permanent Slip Catalogue, with a drawing of each object. 



Ninety-six card labels have been printed with the hand-press in the department, 

 with duplicates of each, as well as 1,296 catalogue-headings, &c. One hundred and 

 thirty-four mounting boards and tablets have 'been made, of Avhich 1)7 have been 

 covered with paper, and 1,278 objects have been mounted upon them. 



Seventy-nine impressions of seals have been made, and mounted with the seals 

 themselves, upon tablets. Impi-essions have also been made from the Oriental 

 engraved stones, to assist in their decipherment. 



A number of antiquities, urns, &c., have been repaired, and iron objects boiled in 

 wax. 



Brass lift-handles have been affixed to the doors of the cupboards of table cases. 



II. — Acquisitions. 

 (1.) Early British and Prehistoric Antiquities: — • 



Ancient British vessels and other antiquities excavated by the donors in eight 

 barrows, in the parish of Folkton, East Riding, Yorkshire. Presented by the Rev. 

 William Greenwell, D.C.L., F.R.s., and Walter K. Foster, Esq., f.s.a. 



Two cinerary urns and an incense cup, from a barrow near High Wycombe, Bucks; 

 presented by John Parker, Esq., f.s.a. Cinerary urn found near Acton, Middlesex, 

 in 18S3 ; presented by G. F. Lawrence, Esq. Urn, incense cup, and flint implements, 

 from a barrow at Sheflbrd, Berks. 



Hammer-head of granite found in Sawtry Fen, Hunts. ; presented by Louis Caches, 

 Esq. Polishing stone found in the parish of Moreton Vallance, co. Gloucester, 

 presented by William Kearsey, Esq. 



Specimen of ancient British " ring money " found in 1849, on the estate of the late 

 John Browne, Esq., near Bridgwater, county Somerset, and presented by his daughter, 

 Mrs. George Tertius Talbot. 



A bronze collar of Late Celtic design, bronze socketed knife, black pottery vase, 

 and a Samian saucer, stated to have been found together, many years since, in a 

 coffin in the Isle of Portland ; presented by J. W. Luft", Esq. 



Three portions of horse-trappings from Polden Hill, county Somerset, belonging to 

 the collection acquired by the British Museum in 1840 ; bi-onze axle-ornament from 

 the Thames, at Goring, and two fragments of a bronze mirror, all of the Late Celtic 

 period, and presented by A. W. Franks, Esq. 



The foreign illustrations of this section have received some important additions, 

 viz. : — 



A selection from the extensive collections excavated by MM. Henri and Louis 

 Siret, in ancient dwellings and tombs on the Mediterranean Coast of the S. E. of 

 Spain. Their discoveries are fully described and illustrated in their great work, 

 " Les Premiers Ages du Metal dans le Sud Est de I'Espagne," Antwerp, 1887, where 

 most of the specimens in this selection are figured. 



A collection of antiquities of the Bronze Period, discovered at stations in the Lakes 

 of Neuchatel and Bienne, and brought together by the late T. W. U. Robinson, Esq.. 

 F.S.A. 



Among the other acquisitions maybe mentioned : — Fragments of pottery, bones, kc, 

 from the " Judge's Cave," Gibraltar, excavated and presented by Lieutenant W. N. 

 Bolton and Lieutenant H. G. Lyons, R.E. 



A small vessel of pottery and a bronze dagger, from Almeria, Spain ; two bronze 

 plates which have ornamented an iron helmet ; and three bronze implements from 

 Italy ; all presented by A. W. Franks, Esq. 



A SAVord blade of Bronze Period, of which the handle has been altered in the Yisi- 

 gothic period to suit the taste of that age. 



Bronze palstave and armlet, found with others at Huelgoat, Finisterre ; ^u'esented 

 by M. le Bihan. 



(2.) Anglo-Roman : — 



A bronze spoon found at Wandsworth ; bronze figure of Cupid on horseback, from 

 Petersfield, Hampshire, and bronze fibula, from Burgh Castle, Sufi'olk ; presented by 

 A. W. Franks, Esq. 



Two vases of JJurobrivian ware, found near Peterborough, presented by Lady 

 Charlotte Schreiber. 



(3.) British Mediaeval , il-c. : — 



An ancient Irish iron bell in ornamental case, believed to be the 1>e]l of Conall 

 Gael ; presented by A. W. Franks, Esq. 



Ancient oak trowel, found embedded in Norman ma.sonry, Wootton St. Lawrence, 

 Hampshire ; presented by Rev. C. S. Ward, Vicar. 



Q.74. F 2 Circular 



