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Hope, J. O. Westwood, to the numerous types of Frederick 
Smith, and to the large number of accessions registered in 
these Reports during the past ten years, the most interesting 
of all the Orders of Insects will be represented in Oxford by 
one of the great collections of the world. 
Financial gifts and grants to the Department. 
Much kind assistance has been rendered in the difficulty 
of meeting the various necessary expenses of an active and 
rapidly growing Department. It had been hoped that the 
University would be able to provide an additional £100 to 
the annual grant, which has only been increased by £10 since 
the year in which the present Professor was appointed (1893). 
But the state of the University finances made it impossible to 
expect this sum in 1904, and £50 was voted. Dr. Longstaff 
also made a generous contribution of £50, and a kind promise 
of £20 made by the late Warden of Merton a few months 
before his death was generously fulfilled by his executors. 
Dr. Longstaff, during his visits to the Department, was im- 
pressed by the congestion due to the continual inflow of 
material and the very insufficient means of dealing with it. 
He generously offered to provide another Assistant during 
1905 and 1906, an offer gratefully accepted by the University 
on Feb. 7, 1905. Mr. J. Collins, of Warrington, has been ap- 
pointed to the position, and the collections are already feeling 
the benefits of an increase in the power of dealing with accu- 
mulated arrears. 
Visits of Naturalists. 
The annual visit of members of the Council of the Ento- 
mological Society of London took place on July 2-4. There 
were present—the President, Professor E. B. Poulton, the 
Vice-President, Dr. F. A. Dixey, D.M., Wadham College, the 
Secretary, Mr. H. Rowland-Brown, M.A., University College, 
and the following members of Council :—Mr. J. E. Collin, Mr. 
Hy, Hs: Druce,, Mr. W, J. Lucas; and Mr. A.J. Chitty, MEAs 
Balliol College. The following ex-Presidents of the Society 
