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the New Hebrides and Fiji Islands, and pottery from the latter. 
Middle Shelf, clubs, pottery, and a head-rest from the Fiji Islands. 
Lower Shelf, tapa cloth, grass dresses and wooden vessels from the 
Fiji Islands. Cases 64, 65. Upper Shelf, bows and arrows and 
wooden vessel from the Salomon Islands. Middle Shelf, implements 
of jade, combs, clubs, and ornaments from New Caledonia. Lower 
Shelf, drums from New Guinea. Cases 66-71. Collections from New 
Guinea and Darnley Island, many of them obtained by Capt. Owen 
Stanley during the voyage of H. M. S. Rattlesnake. Upper Shelf, 
spears from New Guinea and Australia, and baskets. Middle Shelf, 
shield, axes and adzes of stone and shell, head-rests, model of boat, 
personal ornaments, wigs, and masks. Lower shelf, bows and arrows, 
fishing apparatus, and portions of carved canoes. 
Cases 72-74. Australia. — Upper Shelf, boomerangs, clubs, and 
shields. Middle Shelf, throwing-sticks, shields, hatchets of stone set 
in gum, and personal ornaments. Lower Shelf, grass dresses and 
bows and arrows from the Islands in Torres Straits. 
An extensive collection of Prehistoric Antiquities and Eth- 
nography, formed by the late Henry Christy, Esq., was 
presented to the Museum in 1866, and the Ethnographical 
portion is temporarily deposited at 103, Victoria Street, 
Westminster. It may be visited on Fridays from 10 to 4 
o'clock, by tickets, issued in the Hall of the British Museum. 
The Prehistoric section has been removed to the British 
Museum, but cannot at present be exhibited. 
PREHISTORIC ROOM. 
This Room has been newly built, and is intended to receive 
Prehistoric antiquities, including a portion of the Christy 
Collection. 
As, however, it has been found difficult to arrange the col- 
lections in question until the wall-cases are completed, which 
cannot be done before the removal of the Zoological Depart- 
ment, it has been thought better to postpone the arrangement 
of the Prehistoric collections for the present, and temporarily 
to display in the Room two recent acquisitions of importance, 
the Meyrick and Henderson Collections, which could not be 
incorporated in the general collections without considerable 
displacement and overcrowding. 
