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number of donors. A detailed account appears as the con- 
cluding section of this Report. The works presented by 
F. D. Godman, Esq., Hon. D:C.L., F-R:S:, and theyian 
Walter Rothschild are of exceptional importance. 
The work of the Department has suffered considerably 
from ill-health, Mr. Holland having been kept away for many 
weeks in the autumn as the result of an accident, and both he 
and Mr. Hamm having had influenza in the early part of 
1903. In spite of these difficulties a great deal has been 
accomplished. Mr. Holland has finished the final arrange- 
ment of the great sub-family of the Vymphalinae, which has 
occupied him so long and absorbed so much of the space 
in the new cabinets, Seven cabinets with sixty drawers each 
contain the species of this group. This work finished, the 
arrangement of the remaining groups of the Rhopalocera 
is being rapidly completed, the chief difficulty being the want 
of cabinet accommodation. The S//eliconinae have been 
arranged with ample space for addition for many years to 
come in forty drawers ; and the Acracinae, the last Nymphalid 
sub-family, are now being transferred to another series of forty 
drawers which are all that remain unoccupied of the last 
consignment of ten 20-drawer cabinets purchased for the 
Department. When this work is finished, as it must be in 
a few days, the necessity for more cabinet space will become 
pressing—and all the more so because six months must elapse 
before another order can be completed. The important sub- 
family of the Papilioninae has been worked out and arranged 
in temporary quarters in the old cabinets. The Lycaenidae, 
with the exception of the South American Theclas, have also 
been provisionally placed in an old cabinet with very small 
and too shallow drawers. 
One chief piece of work rendered necessary by recent 
accessions has been the labelling of the vast collection of 
many thousands of Bornean insects of various orders presented 
in 1899, Igoo, and 1901, by R. Shelford, Esq., M.A. This 
great demand upon the time of the Assistants has now nearly 
been met. Another task of perhaps greater magnitude has been 
the pinning, setting, and labelling of the large collection made 
