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to summarize the results of the work in this section of the 
Report. 
At the time when the above paragraphs were written it was 
intended to summarize the whole of the chief accessions in 
this part of the Report. The necessities of space have, how- 
ever, prevented the fulfilment of this intention. A full account 
of the numerous and valuable donations received by the 
Department will be found towards the end of the Report. 
The Rothney Collection of Hymenoptera. 
In this place it is appropriate to speak of the splendid collec- 
tion of Oriental Hymenoptera, containing large numbers of 
types, bequeathed to the Department by Mr. G. A. James 
Rothney, F.E.S., together with his fine British Collection of 
the same Order, the manuscript notebooks relating to the 
collections, and the parts of his library dealing with this group 
of insects. 
In addition to the Hymenoptera, Mr. Rothney has _ be- 
queathed a very complete collection of the butterflies and 
dragon-flies of Barrackpore Park. The names of the butter- 
flies have been published by Dr. Frederick Moore (Zztom. 
Mag., July, 1882). 
All the books, cabinets, and boxes have been carefully 
labelled “ Bequeathed to the Hope Department,” and Mr. 
Rothney has made arrangements for the whole to be conveyed 
in a spring van by road to Oxford without any expense 
to the University. This generous benefactor has already sent 
to the Department bound volumes of the Transactions of the 
Entomological Society of London, being a complete set from 
1872 to 1903, both years inclusive. These Transactions are 
more greatly needed than any other single set of volumes 
in the Hope Library, so that a second series will be of great 
value, especially when the Department spreads in a few years 
into the Southern Section of the old Radcliffe Library. When 
the Rothney Collection of Hymenoptera is added to the 
Collections of W. W. Saunders, Sir Sidney Saunders, F. W. 
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