ACCOUNTS, &LQ., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM. 4/ 



3. Ethnography of Asia : — 



A tobacco pipe from Chinese Tartaiy, a pair of Naga armlets, Assam, and a pair 

 of bath sandals, copper vessels, and two iron locks from India ; presented by A. W. 

 Franks, Esq. 



Pigeon whistles from Pekin, and a fisherman's cap from Tientsin ; presented by 

 J. Edge Partington, Esq. 



A number of specimens from Java, Borneo, Amboyna, etc., obtained by exchange 

 from the Ethnographical Museum at Leyden. 



4. Etltnogvaphy of Oceania and Australasia : — 



A stone chopper from the Chatham Islands, presented by the Rev. William Green- 

 well, D.C.L., F.R.S. Five axe blades of stone from New Zealand, four wooden figures 

 from New Guinea, etc., presented by A. W. Franks, Esq. 



An axe with stone blade from the D'Entrecasteaux Islands, presented by Professor 

 Charles Stewart. An inlaid stafi[" from the Solomon Islands ; presented by Henry 

 Willett, Esq., F.G.S. 



A number of Polynesian specimens, presented by J. Edge Partington, Esq. 



A large and interesting collection from the Islands of Torres Straits, presented 

 by Professor A. C. Haddon. This collection was formed by the donor during his 

 stay among the islands of Torres Straits, and is especially valuable from the full 

 descriptive notes accompanying it. 



5. Antiquities and Ethnograpliy of America: — 



Fourteen Pottery vases from the United States of America and from the United 

 States of Colombia ; presented by the Rev. William Greenwell, D.C.L., f.r.s. 



Two wampum belts from graves in the United States, and modern Indian objects ; 

 a small human mask of jadeite from Mexico ; a gold figure from Panama, and electro- 

 type of another; and an interesting series of bone fish hooks, stone arrow-heads, etc., 

 from Guasco, Chile ; all presented by A. W. Franks, Esq. 



A set of silver ornaments from the Indians of Patagonia, and a selection from the 

 collection of Sir Graham Briggs of stone implements from the Islands of the West 

 Indies, including a sculpture from Nevis ; presented by A. W. Franks, Esq. 



A bone figure from the North-West Coast presented by Henry Willett, Esq., 

 F.G.S. 



Augustus W. FranJx:s. 



Department of Coins and Medals. 

 I. — Registration and Arrangement. 



1. Greek Series : — 



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

 registered and incorporated. 



470 coins from the Cunningham collection have been registered. 



282 tickets giving references to the Catalogue of the Coins of Peloponnesus, have 

 been written and placed in the trays beneath the specimens. 



The duplicate coins of Pontus, Bosporus, and Bithynia have been transferred to the 

 cabinet of Greek duplicates. 



The series of electrotypes of remarkable coins in other collections have been 

 arranged geographically in a separate cabinet. 



The second volume of the Beschreihung of the Greek Coins, Macedonia, in the 

 Berlin Museum has been examined and the descriptions compared where necessary 

 with those in the British Museum Catalogue. 



31 Plates for the Catalogue of the Coins of Alexandria have been prepared and 

 mounted. 



Rectifications, in accordance with recent numismatic publications, have been made 

 in the following series : — Ancient British, Tarentum, Allaria, and Dictynua in Ci'ete, 

 Lydia, Caunus, and Heraclea ad Latmum in Caria, Phrygia, Alliance-coins of Asia 

 Minor, Marathus, Axumite Kings. 



The coins of the Pergamene Kings and those of Pergamum, Phocaea, Priene, and 

 Smyrna, have been le-arranged in chronological order in preparation for the 

 Catalogues, Mysia, and Ionia. The specimens in silver have been weighed. The 

 Alliance-coins of Asia Minor of the Imperial period, hitherto placed under various 

 towns, have been brought together in a single cabinet, and temporarily arranged under 

 Provinces. A descriptive list of these coins has been drawn uji. 



19 coins hitherto classed as uncertain have been attributed. 

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