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were also present :—Mr. Roland Trimen, Hon. M.A., F.R.S., 
Professor Meldola, F.R.S., Mr. G. H. Verrall, together with Mr. 
Horace Donisthorpe and Mr. M. Jacoby. The Proctors, Dr. 
F, A. Dixey, and the Professor represented the Hope Curators. 
Commander J. J. Walker and Mr. W. M. Geldart, M.A., Trinity 
College, kindly helped to render the visit a success. As on 
previous occasions, much work was compressed into a brief 
space of time, and the University collections have benefited 
in many ways. 
The Department has been visited in the course of the year 
by many naturalists who have helped in its increase and 
development. They have thus been enabled to some extent 
to see the use which has been made of the specimens they 
have presented and the value that is attached to them. In 
some cases, however, they have come to do some definite 
piece of work, and had but little time to spend in seeing 
the collection. Thus, Mr. G. A. K. Marshall made two or 
three visits, but worked hard at the African Coleoptera in the 
Burchell Collection, and had little opportunity of inspecting 
the immense numbers of specimens presented by him, the brief 
description of which fills no inconsiderable part of these yearly 
Reports. It was a great pleasure to show Mr. C. A. Wiggins 
on more than one occasion the wonderful series of butterflies 
collected by him at various points around Lake Victoria 
Nyanza, and to show Mr. Horace A. Byatt, B.A., Lincoln 
College, the valued specimens sent by him from British Central 
Africa. Colonel J. W. Yerbury, so far as time permitted on 
a brief visit, looked through the British Collection of Diptera, 
of which he has given by far the larger part. Mr. H.S. Glad- 
stone, who collected the Bahama specimens so much valued in 
the Hope Museum, visited the Department, unfortunately at 
a time when the Professor was away from Oxford. Miss 
Dorothea M. A. Bate gave valuable information concerning 
the specimens from Cyprus presented in Ig03. Mr. W. J. Lucas 
similarly rendered kind assistance in the elucidation or ampli- 
fication of data accompanying the specimens given by him, 
and in naming British specimens in the groups of which he 
