a large amount of the work in 1911 was undertaken in prepara- 

 tion for this great event in the history of the Hope Depart- 

 ment. Thus, Mr. W. Holland, in addition to the constantly- 

 recurring incorporation of specimens, spent much time in 

 making a list of the whole of the collections which has been 

 of much service in the rearrangement now being effected. 

 Another very important piece of work begun and completed 

 by him in 1911 was the preliminary arrangement of all the 

 material in the General Collections of Rhynchota, both 

 Hemiptera and Homoptera, and the careful and complete 

 arrangement of the British Collections of the same group. 

 These latter, after receiving distinctive labels, were united 

 into a single great collection of which the central feature is 

 the fine series of specimens which formed the private collec- 

 tion of the late Edward Saunders, F.R.S., and all determined 

 by him. Mr. Holland also expended much time upon the 

 Baden-Sommer Collection of Coleoptera presented by the 

 Professor in 191 1 ; and in the preliminary arrangement of 

 certain groups of moths. 



Mr. A. H. Hamm, in addition to the large amount of labour 

 expended in setting the accessions, especially those received 

 from Equatorial Africa, was able to devote much time to 

 printing labels, to incorporating large numbers of specimens 

 in the British Collections of Diptera, and, by re-setting the 

 Erycijiidac, to completing the readjustment of the general 

 collection of butterflies. Some of the printing, especially that 

 required by the S. A. Neave and the C. A. Wiggins Collections, 

 as well as by the great collections of Empidae and their prey 

 presented by Mr. Hamm himself, was very extensive. 



The chief work carried out by Mr. Joseph Collins has been 

 printing for and labelling the great West African collection, 

 chiefly of Lepidoptera, presented by Mr. W. A. Lamborn. 

 The reproductions in the labels of the precise and admirably 

 full data recorded by the donor has involved an immense 

 amount of exacting work, as well as much time spent in the 

 preparation of forms of label and in supervision by the Pro- 

 fessor. Among other large pieces of work have been labelling 

 the remainder of the S. A. Neave and C. A. Wiggins Collcc- 



