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Monsieur Jules Bourgeois. All these specimens are South 
African and, with the exception of the carabid, were captured 
and presented by Mr. Guy Marshall. Polyhirma bennettii 
was captured at Somerset West, Cape Colony, in Jan. 1900, 
by Mr. E. N. Bennett, M.A., Hertford College. 
A few Hispidae were kindly named by Dr. Gestro, of Genoa, 
and one new species was found in the little Bornean collection 
which was sent to him. 
Six members of the Council of the Entomological Society 
were able to accept the invitation for the first Saturday to 
Monday in July. There were present on July 5 to 7 the 
Treasurer, Mr. R. M¢Lachlan, F.R.S.; one Secretary, Mr. 
H. Rowland Brown, M.A., University College; two Vice- 
Presidents, Dr. David Sharp, F.R.S., and the Professor; 
Rev. F. D. Morice, M.A., Queen’s College; Mr. Arthur J. 
Chitty, M.A., Balliol College ; and Col. C. Swinhoe, Hon. M.A., 
Wadham College ; together with the following entomologists, 
Professor RK. Meldola, F.R.S., Mr. H.S. J. Donisthamae 
Mr. Hamilton H. Druce, Mr. M. Jacoby, and Mr. Guy A. K. 
Marshall. I have to thank many friends, and especially the 
Vice-Chancellor, the Proctors, and Dr. F. A. Dixey, for their 
kind help in promoting the success of a visit which is of 
inestimable value to the Department. 
An unusual number of African naturalists have been in 
England during the year 1902, and the Department has been 
visited by many kind friends who have presented specimens 
and sent notes and observations from various parts of the 
continent. Mr. Guy A. K. Marshall (Rhodesia) came many 
times and worked out our collection of the Rhynchophorous 
coleopterous genus, //ipporrhinus, of which he is making a 
special study, and the collections have also been seen by 
Mr. Horace A. Byatt, B.A., Lincoln College (Central African 
Protectorate), Mr. C. J. M. Gordon, B.A., Balliol College 
(Southern Nigeria), Mr. S. L. Hinde (East African Protecto- 
rate), and Mr. W. L. S. Loat (Soudan and N. Uganda). 
Other kind friends of the Department have inspected some 
part of the collections at various times during the year :— 
