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has made a special study. Mr. Roland Trimen, F.R.S., Pro- 
fessor Meldola, F.R.S., and Mr. Hamilton H. Druce in the 
course of their brief visits had but little time to see the valuable 
material they have presented to the Hope Museum. 
The Department has also been visited by the following 
naturalists :—Professor A. Giard, of Paris, Professor Monticelli, 
of Naples, Miss E.M. Sharpe, Mr. N. Annandale, Deputy Super- 
intendent of the Indian Museum, Calcutta, Mr. Willoughby 
Gardner, Mr. J. R. Hardy of the Manchester Museum, Mr. 
G. C. Champion, Mr. Selwyn Image. 
Dr. Comté, Naturalist of the “ Laboratoire des Soies,” Lyon, 
came to Oxford in order to study and draw some of the West- 
wood types of the silk-producing moths. 
Work done by the Staff. 
The arrangement of the general collection of butterflies has 
been continued by Mr. W. Holland, who has finished another 
family, the Evycinidae. He has also arranged the MWembra- 
cidae and allied groups of the Homoptera. In this latter 
work the greatest assistance was afforded by the preliminary 
classification of the material and the names given by Canon 
W. W. Fowler, D.Sc., Jesus College, as well as by the work 
of Mr. G. B. Buckton, F.R.S., upon a large proportion of the 
Hope Membracidae. Type labels have lately been added to 
all the specimens described in his “ Monograph of the Mem- 
bracidae.” Much of Mr. Holland’s time has also been 
occupied in incorporating the accessions, and in examining 
the Coleoptera for types and carefully labelling them when 
found. A large amount of labour was also expended in 
separating the Burchell specimens from the general collection 
and in searching for them in other directions. 
Both Mr. Holland and Mr. Hamm have also continually 
assisted in the various pieces of special work and researches 
of every kind which have been carried on in the course of 
the year. 
The largest single piece of work undertaken by Mr. A. H. 
