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•Report of the Hope Professor of Zoology, 1911. 



The Report for 191 1 has been prepared under exceptionally 

 difficult conditions. The collections of Lepidoptera were 

 transferred to the south end of the old Radcliffe Library 

 early in the present year, and advantage was taken of this 

 rearrangement to reorganize the whole of the rest of the 

 collections, and to lay down cork carpet upon all the parts 

 of the old Department except the Library, which has been 

 thus covered for many years. With the pressing necessity 

 for other work this rearrangement could only be effected a 

 part at a time ; and, at the present moment, immense masses 

 of material, temporarily stored in the old Library while the 

 linoleum was being fitted, still await rearrangement. As one 

 result of the confusion a large number of the duplicate labels 

 from which the Report is written have been for the time 

 misplaced, and will only be found when the material is 

 redistributed in its place. Further difficulties have followed 

 from Mr. Shelford's illness, and the fact that his successor, 

 Mr. R. S. Bagnall, has not yet been able to begin his work. 



Under these circumstances the details of a large part of the 

 accessions in 1911, although incorporated, can only appear in 

 next year's Report. 



1. The Rothney Collection of Hymenoptera. 



Mr. G. A. James Rothney has in the course of 1911 pre- 

 sented three important collections, which have now been 

 supplied with printed labels and placed in drawers at the end 

 of the cabinet of Oriental Hymenoptera presented by him in 

 1 9 10 and acknowledged in last year's Report. 



The three collections are: — (1) African, Madeiran, and 

 Madagascan Hymenoptera from Hermann Rolle ; (2) Malayan 

 Hymenoptera (principally Javanese) from the Van der Poll 

 collection ; and (3) a collection, chiefly of Hymenoptera, made 

 by F. P. Dodd in N. Australia. 



Details of the numbers, which are very large, will appear 

 in next year's Report. The localities in which these collec- 

 tions were made render the accessions of great interest and 

 value. 



