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Dr. G. B. Longstaff, in the preparation of his book " Butterfly- 

 hunting in many lands", published in 1912, has paid visits in 

 order to study the fine collections presented by him to the 

 University. Mr. W. B. Alexander, B.A., King's College, 

 Cambridge, who has continued the Prout-Bacot experiments 

 on the moth Acidalia virgularia, has come to study the original 

 material. Mr. Alexander has now published his results 

 (Tree. Roy. Soc. B, vol. 85, 191 2, p. 4.',) and placed his 

 specimens with the original material in the Hope Department. 

 Mr. Hugh Scott, M.A., Trinity College, Cambridge, Mr. G. 

 Arnold, M.Sc, of the Bulawayo Museum, and Mr. James II. 

 Keys have also visited the Department. Mr. D. Jenness, B.A., 

 Balliol College, paid a brief visit in order to learn something 

 of the problems to be studied in the Papuan area which he 

 was about to visit. 



The Department was also visited by Sir David Bruce, F.R.S., 

 and Lady Bruce; Professor Charles Ferriere of Geneva; Pro- 

 fessor J. Stanley Gardiner, F.R.S. ; Professor W. Garstang; 

 Dr. W. 11. Gaskell, F.R.S.; Sir Archibald Geikie, P.R.S.j 

 Professor Sydney J. Hickson, F.R.S. ; Sir E; Ray Lankester, 

 F.R.S. ; Professor C. S. Minot, Hon. D.Sc, of Harvard .Uni- 

 versity ; Professor R. C. Punnett, F.R.S. ; Dr. G. Archdall 

 Reid ; Professor C. Sasaki, Imperial University of Tokyo ; 

 and Professor G. Elliott Smith, F.R.S. 



1 1. Works publisJicd in 19] 1 . 



The following papers appeared in the Transactions of the 

 Entomological Society of London for 191 1 : — 



Pt. I, No. I. — On the Forms and Geographical Distribution 

 of Acraea /jwrt.Godt., and Acraea johnstoni, Godm., by Harry 

 Eltringham, M.A.. F.Z.S. 



Pt. I, No. VI. — Experiments in 1909 and 1910 upon the 

 Colour-relation between Lepidopterous Larvae and Pupae 

 and their Surroundings, by Elizabeth Bridges. 



Pts. Ill and IV, No. XXIII.— South African Aculeate 

 Uvmenoptera in the Oxford Museum, by the late Col. C. T. 

 Bingham, F.Z.S., with an Introduction by the Professor. 



