Report of the Hope Professor of Zoology, 1902. 
Many fine additions to the Hope Collections were made in 
1902, but the following record must necessarily be incomplete 
because of the salutary change which has taken place in the 
date of appearance. The Report for 1901 appeared in June 
of last year and contained an account of the work which was 
done up to a few days before publication. It follows that, as 
regards labour spent in preparing, labelling, cataloguing, and 
incorporating the specimens presented during 1902, the present 
Report can only contain the complete records of about three 
quarters of a year. 
The most important accessions during the year have been 
the great series of South African insects of many orders, and 
especially the bionomic material presented by Guy A. K. 
Marshall, Esq.; the fine collection of butterflies from Toro, 
Uganda, Lake Victoria Nyanza, and Mombasa, presented 
by C. A. Wiggins, Esq.; the South African Hymenoptera 
Aculeata, by Dr. F. N. Brown; the Oriental Heterocera, by 
Colonel C. Swinhoe; and the insects of many orders from 
Central Spain, by the Professor. Important donations have 
also been received from C. J. M. Gordon, Esq. (Southern 
Nigeria), Herbert Druce, Esq., F.L.S. (many localities), 
Lieut.-Colonel J. W. Yerbury (many localities), E. L. Meyer, 
Esq. (North Germany), W. J. Kaye, Esq. (British Guiana), 
W. L. S. Loat, Esq. (Blue Nile, Soudan, and North Uganda), 
F. A. Bellamy, Esq. (Tenerife), W. R. Allen, Esq. (North 
America), Hamilton H. Druce, Esq. (Russia). 
The most important accessions to the British Collections 
have been due to the kindness of Lieut.-Col. J. W. Yerbury, 
Horace S. J. Donisthorpe, Esq., Professor T. Hudson-Beare, 
Major R. B. Robertson, W. C. Boyd, Esq., W. J. Lucas, Esq., 
Mr. W. Holland, and Mr. A. H. Hamm. 
Valuable gifts to the Hope Library were made by a large 
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