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liberality of Mrs. Hope, the Saundersian collection of Orthoptera and 

 Heterocerous Lepidoptera (containing all Mr. Wallace's Malayan species) 

 was purchased, and annual additions are made by purchase with the grant 

 added by Mrs. Hope to the original foundation fund. The collections of 

 the late Mr. Wells, the Rev. Mr. Tylden (especially rich in CurcuUonida], 

 the Rev. Mr. Spilsbury, the Saundersian Hymenoptera, large purchases of 

 Mr. Wallace's private collections of Coleoptera from the Malayan Archi- 

 pelago, the Wollaston collection (with all the dissections prepared by that 

 gentleman), the Marshall collections of Orthoptera and Neuroptera, the 

 Hearsey collection from India, the Burchell collections from South Africa 

 and Brazil, the Oates collection fiom Upper Caffraria, the Bell collection of 

 Crustacea (of singular beauty), the Adams collection of Crustacea from the 

 Eastern Ocean, and many others of smaller importance have been added 

 either by purchase or as donations. For the proper understanding of the 

 Hope Professorship and the duties devoting on the Hope Professor as 

 keeper of this extensive Collection, it has been thought advisable that the 

 Conditions of the Hopeian Deeds of Gift should be published in an Appendix 

 to the present volume, as they appear in the Oxford University Statute 

 Book. This appears to be rendered necessary by the proposal for the 

 future modification of the Professorship which has been made by the Oxford 

 Commissioners in a Statement which has been issued by them in the 

 ' Oxford University Gazette' of the 26th April, 1878, " with respect to the 

 main purposes relative to the University, for which, in their opinion, 

 provision should be made under the Act," and in which, amongst many 

 other proposed alterations, the Commissioners state that " it may be 

 desirable to provide a Reader in Human Anatomy as assistant to the 

 Professor of Human and Comparative Anatomy, with a stipend of from 

 £250 to £300 per annum ; and we think there should also be a Reader 

 (at a present stipend of £400 per annum) in Invertebrate Anatomy, whose 

 office, upon a vacancy in the Professorship of Zoology, should he united to 

 that Chair, with such an increase in the emoluments of the Professor as 

 may make them equal to those of the Chair of Human and Comparative 

 x\natomy, conditionally on his undertaking the additional duty." Against 

 this proposed alteration Mrs. Hope has sent in a remonstrance to the 

 University authorities, urging that it would completely alter the character 

 of the Hopeian Professorship, and militate against the original clearly 

 defined intentions of the founder, who foresaw that this care of his 

 Collections and additions thereto would be amply sufficient for the entire 

 labours of his Professor. Indeed by the 13th clause of the original deed 

 the Hope Professor was expressly forbidden to hold any other professorship 

 or readership in the University. Up to the present time (November, 1870) 

 the Commissioners have not officially dealt with the question of additional 

 Professorships or Readerships. 



