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removal to the rooms prepared in the New University Museum " 

 — a transference contemplated in the original deed of gift. It was 

 probably in connection with the migration to the Parks that the 

 Rev. F. \V. Hope founded the Hope Chair in 1861, and ap- 

 pointed Westwood as first Hope Professor. The founder died in 

 1862, and in the same year, and again in 1864, his widow added to 

 the endowment of the Chair the collections, library, and engrav- 

 ings, and founded the Hope Keepership of engraved portraits. 



At the time of Prof. Westwood's death, in 1893, the 

 University provided a small annual grant for an assistant It 

 now provides for the remuneration on a more adequate scale of 

 two assistants, increased to three as the result of Dr. G. B. Long- 

 staff's endowment in 1909. A portion of the Magdalen College 

 grant, administered by the Delegates of the Museum, augmented 

 later by an annual grant from the Common University Fund, 

 made possible the appointment of the late R. Siielford as 

 Assistant-Curator in 1905, 'and of R. S. Bagnall in the present 

 year. Jesus College, by electing the Professor to a Fellowship 

 on the understanding that the annual income would be devoted 

 to University purposes, has benefited the Department in many 

 ways, especially in the provision of cabinets. The expense of 

 this latter costly requirement has aláo been shared by grants 

 from Brasenose College, the Common University Fund, Convoca- 

 tion, and by private contributions. A sum of £100 was presented 

 T3y Dr. H. Wilde, F.R.S., towards the expense of creating the 

 Bionomic Collections. 



It was at first intended to place the Hope Department in the 

 west upper corridor of the University Museum, but this space 

 was required for the Radclifíe Library. The Department was 

 ultimately given the western half of the south upper corridor, 

 the northern section being handed over to the two Mathematical 

 Professors. In 1893, when the present Professor was appointed, 

 the University made arrangements for extending the Department 

 into this latter section ; and now, nineteen years later, it has just 

 been extended into the southern half of the space originally 

 intended for it, the Radclifíe Librar}- having been transferred a 

 few years ago to the Drapers' Building. During the first Pro- 

 fessor's occupancy of the Chair, from 1861-93, the collections 

 were immensely increased. The founder presented the Wollaston 



