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books to some risk. Burchell estimated his Brazilian insects at 
from sixteen to twenty thousand; and the amount of refer- 
ence which this number implies ought not to be thrown upon 
the original manuscript, which is a priceless possession. Will 
not some friend of learning and of Oxford have an exact 
copy made, or, far better, have the original printed and issued 
to scientific libraries as a small volume of Hope Reports? 
Then, as each paper appears, describing some part of the great 
collection, every naturalist could compare it with an authentic 
copy of the geographical notes, dates, and records of observa- 
tion made by the naturalist whom Oxford honoured with the 
degree of D.C.L. in 1834. 
The work which has been done upon the Burchell Collec- 
tions during 1903 was published at the beginning of the 
present year in the Annals and Magazine of Natural History. 
The publishers have kindly consented to an arrangement 
whereby all such papers are repaged, printed off in sheets, 
and stored, so that ultimately one or more volumes of Hope 
Reports will be issued dealing exclusively with the Burchell 
Collections. There have appeared at present (1) An intro- 
ductory account of the life and travels of W. J. Burchell, by 
the Professor (p. 45), with a map showing his Brazilian route, 
prepared by Miss Cora B. Sanders, of Lady Margaret Hall ; 
(2) The account of a new stridulating organ in scorpions, 
by Mr. R. I.) Pocock, F.Z.S. (p. 56); (3) A memoir ‘on the 
Malacoderm beetles, both African and Brazilian, by Monsieur 
Jules Bourgeois of Ste-Marie-aux-Mines [Markirch], Alsace 
(p. 89). This latter includes the description of four new 
species, including Chlamydolycus burchellii, captured Nov. 18, 
1813, at Uitenhage, Cape Colony, and Celetes burchelli, 
captured at 10 P.M. Dec. £8, 1826, on the Sierra da Cubatdo, 
Brazil. The priceless value of Burchell’s notes will be 
appreciated by the study of this paper, which abounds in 
observations upon the habits, and mode and time of dis- 
play of light by various species of ‘glow-worms” and 
their larvae. (4) An account of the Brazilian butterflies of 
the sub-families /thomitnae, Danainae, and Satyrinae, by Miss 
