32 ADDITIONS TO THE COLLECTION OF NATIONAL ANTIQUITIES.

that they are the arms of Eleanor, daughter of Pedro IV. King of Arragoii, and queen of John I. King of Castile and Leon. This princess was married 187") and died 1382, between Arms of Eleauor, Queen of Castile. which dates it is most likely that this dish was made. It is not improbable that our specimen may have been made in the Balearic Isles, then under the dominion of Arragon, as it is from one of them, Majorca, that the Italian Majolica derived its origin and name. In concluding this inventory, I will here venture to call the attention of arclucologists to some branches in which the National Collection is most deficient, viz, : stone imple- ments found in England or Wales, British urns, and ISaxou antiquities of every kind, especially glass vessels. It is very unsatisfactory, on looking over the early Minutes of the Society of Antiipiarics, or volumes of the Archjoologia, to note how few of the more interesting objects there described are now to l)e found. AVliether it is owing to neglect, or fire, or any other casualty, that they have disappeared, it matters not to the archieologist, they are e<iual]y ixiyond his reach. It is in a public Museum alone that such tilings can be safely preserved or easily consulted. AUGUSTUS W. I'iiANKS. niiiTiHii MiiHEUM, March, isr.l.