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Barcelona, and in the Eastern Pyrenees in June and July, 
1901. A part of the Neuroptera has been already worked 
out by Mr. R. M°&Lachlan, F.R.S., while Mr. Edward 
Saunders, F.R.S., has finished the majority of the Hymeno- 
ptera Acculeata and the Rev. F: D: Morice, M.A., Queens 
College, the whole of the small collection of Chrysididae. 
The principal part of the mechanical work upon the Balearic 
and Spanish collection was completed in 1902. As regards 
the splendid collection of butterflies from the neighbourhood 
of Lake Victoria Nyanza presented by Mr. C. A. Wiggins, 
F.E.S., the whole labour has fallen within the year 1903 and 
this has been the severest tax upon our resources. Out 
of about 12,000 specimens no less than 8,000 have been 
“set” and have received their printed locality labels. In 
order to prevent too complete stagnation in other directions, 
a large part of the setting of this consignment as well as the 
whole of many other small accessions have been entrusted to 
the skill and care of Mr. Arthur Cant, F.E.S., in London. 
Mr. Cant also reset and mended with great success several 
hundred butterflies captured by W. J. Burchell, Hon. D.C.L., 
in Brazil, between 1825 and 1830. The Department owes 
him a debt of gratitude for the great care with which the 
work has been done and for the feeling of confidence with 
which it is possible to regard specimens among which the 
transposition, displacement, or loss of the original labels bear- 
ing the handwriting of the great traveller would be an injury 
beyond repair. 
Of course the General Collection will not absorb anything 
like the whole of these 8,000 British East African and Uganda 
specimens, but it was necessary to set them in order to pro- 
vide material for the faunistic and bionomic researches of 
Mr. S. A. Neave, B.A., F.E.S., of Magdalen College. In the 
meantime large numbers are ready for cataloguing and in- 
corporation, but are still kept apart in order that they may 
be conveniently studied by the generous donor when he 
returns to this country in the early summer. 
Another very serious piece of work which has occupied 
