Report of the Hope Professor of Zoology, 1903. 
Among the large numbers of specimens recorded in this 
Report it is difficult to single out any gifts for special mention, 
so many are donations of unusual value. 
The African material is, as on other occasions the most im- 
portant, including the splendid bionomic accessions and fine 
additions to the general collection captured in Rhodesia and 
presented by Guy A. K. Marshall, Esq.; the immense and 
valuable collection of butterflies from the neighbourhood of 
Lake Victoria Nyanza presented by C. A. Wiggins, Esq.— 
a collection described by Mr. Roland Trimen, F.R.S., as the 
finest consignment he had ever seen from a single district ; the 
important collection from the same area, presented by A. H. 
Harrison, Esq. ; from the tropical West Coast the smaller but 
valuable collections presented by Sir George Denton from 
Gambia, and C. J. M. Gordon, Esq., B.A., Balliol College, from 
Southern Nigeria; the small but deeply interesting series 
from Lake Tana, Abyssinia, presented by Dr. A. J. Hayes of 
Cairo; the large and very valuable series of South African 
Hymenoptera Aculeata presented by F. N. Brown, Esq. 
From the Oriental region the donations have been un- 
usually large and interesting, including nearly the whole of 
the valuable material described in Proc. Zool. Soc., 1902 
(pp. 230-284), and figured in the accompanying five plates 
(XIX-X XIII), presented by R. Shelford, Esq., M.A., Christ’s 
College, Cambridge; the fine collection from Lower Siam 
presented by N. Annandale Esq., B.A., Balliol College, and 
H.C. Robinson, Esq.; the valuable set of beetles from Southern 
India presented by Mrs. R. Imray and the Rev. A. Thornley, 
M.A., F.L.S.; the very useful series of butterflies from British 
New Guinea, purchased from Mr. H. S. Rohu. 
From America the accessions include an extremely valuable 
set of named moths, presented by W. Schaus, Esq., F.Z.S. ; 
a very fine series of insects from Jamaica, presented by C. B. 
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