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advice and help was given by Mr. F. A. Bellamy, of the 
University Observatory. A large amount of binding ought 
to be done at once. Not only are many gifts of important 
monographs made every year; but there is a vast accumula- 
tion of unbound volumes and papers dating from far beyond 
1858, when the library was presented to the University by 
Mr. Hope. 
Many hundreds of the unbound papers have been classified 
in the most convenient manner for binding in volumes, the 
arrangement requiring the expenditure of a large amount 
of time and thought. Colonel Yerbury, F.Z.S., very kindly 
came down to Oxford and stayed for some days, during which 
he classified the whole of the papers dealing with the Diptera. 
Mr. R. I. Pocock, F.Z.S., with equal kindness came to arrange 
those which treat of the Arachnida and Myriopoda. 
A detailed account of the additions to the Departmental 
Library appears at the end of this Report. Special mention 
must be made of the three volumes containing the author's 
original drawings reproduced in the plates of “A Monograph 
of the Membracidae ” (London, 1903), presented by the author, 
G. B. Buckton, Esq., F.R.S., F.L.S.; of the very valuable 
and extensive “ Etudes d’Entomologie” presented by Mon- 
sieur Charles Oberthiir, of Rennes, an abundantly illustrated 
series of volumes hitherto unrepresented in Oxford; of the 
splendid series of monographs by Professor Chr. Aurivillius of 
Stockholm, presented by the author; of the gift by R. I 
Pocock, Esq., F.Z.S., of a complete set of his valuable 
memoirs upon the Arachnida and Myriopoda. 
In the course of the researches which are published in his 
important monograph, Mr. Buckton studied many hundreds 
of Hope specimens and described a large number of types, 
thus rendering the University collection of the Rhynchota 
Homoptera of far greater interest and value. 
One of the chief pieces of work in the preparation of fresh 
material during 1903 has been the completion of the setting 
and labelling of the large collection of insects made by the 
Professor, Mr. Holland, and Mr. Hamm in Majorca, near 
