Miss Nor ah Ward has continued her work upon the 

 reserve insect collections, which number many thousands 

 of specimens, and has brought the whole series into classified 

 order. The Orthoptera have been fully arranged in two 

 cabinets. Work is now proceeding upon the general collection 

 of Coleoptera, the family Cicindelidae being completed and 

 arranged in the Greville Smyth room. 



Two special cases illustrating the chief species of silk- 

 producing moths and their cocoons, have been prepared 

 by Mr. Griffiths. 



Allusion has been made to a special exhibit relating to 

 the House-fly. This consisted of enlarged models of the egg, 

 larva, pupa, and adult house-fly, illustrations of the objection- 

 able breeding places, and the manner in which infection is 

 conveyed to the breakfast table. By the courtesy of Professor 

 Walker Hall, cultures of the disease germ of Coli, Typhoid 

 and Anthrax were prepared from infected flies in the patho- 

 logical laboratories of the Infirmary, and added to the exhibit. 



Considerable public interest was taken in the fly-exhibit, 

 and there is good reason to believe that it has served its 

 purpose in emphasising the need for special preventive 

 measures against the house-fly as a bearer of disease. 



Vertebrate Zoology. 



The registration of the exhibition series has been in . 

 abeyance during the year, owing to Mr. H. W. Clark joining 

 the 3rd Devon Regiment immediately upon the outbreak of 

 war. 



The Natural History collections conveyed in the bequest 

 of the late Lt. -Colonel F. D. Raikes included 114 examples 

 of British birds, mostly from Netheravon in Wiltshire, and 

 about 100 Indian and Burmese birds, from the Pegu district, 

 Lower Burma. All these are mounted in glazed cases. A 



