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ADDITIONS TO THE HOPE LIBRARY IN 1902. 
The dangerous condition of many hundreds of old and 
valuable monographs in their original paper wrappers was 
brought before Convocation, and a grant of £50 was voted in 
order to assist in making up the arrears of binding. Many 
series have now been bound down to the last complete 
volume, and a large number of monographs have been 
rendered secure, especially in the Diptera, where the need 
was exceptionally pressing. 
Two very valuable gifts have been made to the Library 
during the past year. The two volumes on the Rhopalocera, 
together with the volume of Plates (1879-1901) in the “ Bio- 
logica Centrali-Americana,’ by F. D. Godman, Hon. D.C.L., 
F.R.S., and the late Osbert Salvin, F.R.S., were presented by 
F. D. Godman, Esq. These volumes, which are of the utmost 
assistance to the work of the Department, being the classical 
monograph on Central American butterflies, cannot be obtained 
apart from the costly series of which they form an important 
part. The Hon. Walter Rothschild gave as a generous 
exchange for two duplicate Indian hawk-moths a set, from 
its beginning in 1894, of the “ Novitates Zoologicae,”’ of which 
volumes i to viii are complete, and kindly consented to 
exchange future numbers for the “ Hope Reports.” 
Both these accessions are now bound and in constant use. 
The Secretary of State for India in Council presented the 
volume on Arachnida by R. I. Pocock (London, 1900), and 
that on Rhynchota (Heteroptera) by W. L. Distant, vol. i. 
(London, 1902), in “ The Fauna of British India” series. 
The Smithsonian Institution (United States National 
Museum, Washington) presented The Annual Report of 
Regents for the year ending June 30, 1900 (Washington, 
1902), and valuable memoirs by the following writers :— 
August Busck, Esq. ; James E. Benedict, Esq. (two memoirs) ; 
William Schaus, Esq.; Ralph V. Chamberlin, Esq.; Miss 
Mary J. Rathbun (two memoirs); Warren Elmer Hindes, 
Esq.; Miss Harriet Richardson; Charles Branch Wilson, 
Esq.; William Perry Hay, Esq.(two memoirs) ; Henry Ulke, 
