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As the collections have grown and the old specimens have 
been arranged in new cabinets with a due allowance of room 
for future increase, the floor of the Hope Museum has become 
more and more crowded, until it became necessary to provide 
space by moving cabinets out into the corridor. This method 
of relief—both inconvenient and undesirable in many ways— 
cannot be available for more than a short time, because 
the accommodation in adequately lighted parts of the 
corridors is very limited. Under these circumstances the 
Delegates of the Museum granted to the Hope Department 
the use of the south end of the large room vacated last July 
by the Radcliffe Library. Professor Townsend, however, 
found that he was in urgent need of the entire floor space; 
and the Delegates consented to meet his needs as well as 
those of the Hope Professor, by the erection of a commodious 
gallery for the insect cabinets. The necessary grants for 
its construction and for making a new door in the western 
end of the Hope Museum, giving easy access to the south end 
of the Old Radcliffe Library, were passed by Convocation, 
and the work carried out in the Long Vacation. The 
structure which has now been erected will be of permanent 
value when an Electrical Laboratory is built for the 
Wykeham Professor of Physics. The supporting standards 
of the gallery were carefully arranged with a view to the 
most economical and convenient employment of the floor 
space as the principal section of the Hope Museum. 
Advantage will be taken of the removal into the gallery to 
rearrange the whole of the cabinets in the Department—a 
rather serious undertaking. 
The chaotic state of the partially catalogued Hope Library 
has for long been a source of trouble, causing much un- 
necessary waste of time, and often the entire failure to make 
use of opportunities for study which are on the spot but 
unavailable. In the autumn Miss Bellamy began work upon 
the library, marking the catalogued books and writing slips 
for the others. A great deal of work remains to be done, but 
a good beginning has been made. At the outset much kind 
