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Cora B. Sanders (now in the press). In this latter paper, 
in the production of which Dr. F. D. Godman, Hon. D.C.L., 
F.R.S., Mr. W. Holland, and the Professor have also co- 
operated, some evidence will be brought forward which 
suggests that slight changes have taken place in certain 
forms during the lapse of three-quarters of a century. 
In the Easter Vacation the Professor took the opportunity 
of a visit to Paris to carry by hand the fragile Malacoderm 
beetles collected by W. J. Burchell, together with other Mala- 
coderms ; and these were very kindly taken on to Alsace by 
Monsieur Bourgeois’ brother. The Burchell specimens were 
subsequently returned to Paris in the same manner, and 
brought back to Oxford by Miss Poulton in June. Not the 
slightest injury was caused. On the same visit the Professor 
made a communication to the “Société Entomologique de 
France,” on April 22: “La signification bionomique des 
taches ocellaires des phases de la saison humide chez les 
Satyrinae et Nymphalinae”’!. 
The preparation for further memoirs continues. The whole 
of the Burchell Brazilian Hesperidae, having been “ reset,” are 
now in the hands of Dr. Godman, who has kindly promised 
to work them out. Colonel Bingham has also kindly named 
the specimens of the ants, of which there are many and deeply 
interesting records in the note-books. 
In writing the Introduction it was necessary to consult 
Burchell’s letters preserved in the Herbarium at Kew, as 
well as the note-books which refer to his vast botanical 
collections. Every facility and the kindest help was always 
afforded on these occasions. Sir Joseph Hooker, one of the 
few naturalists who remembers Burchell, has with the utmost 
kindness written again and again and afforded important in- 
formation which could have been gained from no other source. 
Mr. Edward Saunders, F.R.S., who has rendered such 
invaluable aid for so many years, has during 1903 completed 
the determination of the species in four out of the twelve 
large boxes of Greek Hymenoptera collected by his cousin, 
1 Ann. de la Soc. Ent. de Fr., p. 407, Dec. 1903. 
