THE ARCHAEOLOGICAL SECTION. 
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Trustees found it necessary to remove the Victoria Memorial 
Collection, then temporarily housed in the Museum, from the 
front room of the first floor of the main building- The Director- 
General of Archaeology consented to the loan of the ground 
floor of the new wing to the Trustees of the Victoria Memorial, 
temporarily, for the exhibition of their specimens, but reserved 
the space in the suspended galleries and the coin room for 
the use of the Archaeological Section. In the space thus 
allotted were showed the antiquities collected by Dr. (now Sir 
Aurel) Stein during his first expedition into Central Asia, the 
antiquities discovered by Dr. J. H. Marshall in the excavations 
of Bhita, and those collected by Rev. A. H. Francke in Indian 
Tibet. The collection of prehistoric stone and metal imple¬ 
ments of the Museum were also exhibited here. 
The arrangements were completed on the 30th of* Decem¬ 
ber, 1911, and Their Majesties the King-Emperor and the 
Queen-Empress paid a visit to the Museum on the forenoon 
of 4th January, 1912. 
The entire coin collection was, about the same time, 
rearranged in the new coin room. The room itself has been 
constructed as a strong room, in which it is not necessary to 
keep the coins locked in safes. 
The exhibits of the Victoria Memorial having now been 
removed elsewhere, the gallery on the ground floor of the new 
wing has been formally made over to this Section. A new 
arrangement of specimens on modern methods is shortly to 
be taken in hand. At the same time the additional space 
will make it possible to exhibit the finds made in recent 
excavations, or rather such of them as will be sent to 
Calcutta. 
In 1912 Mr. J. Coggin Brown of the Geological Survey 
of India undertook to classify and rearrange the collection of 
prehistoric stone and metal implements, and has compiled 
a catalogue of them. The publication of his catalogue, it is 
to be hoped, will make future investigation in Indian pre¬ 
historic archaeology more easy, for reliable literature on this 
subject is altogether wanting. 
