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was most carefully studied and worked out by him in the 
interval between his return home in 1815 and his departure 
for Brazil in 1825. The immensely larger Brazilian collection 
was never studied in this way, and the names are merely the 
off-hand impressions of a naturalist abroad, without the 
materials or the time for study—a naturalist moreover who 
was a botanist far more than a zoologist, and a zoologist 
rather than an entomologist. But Burchell had a keen love 
for insects as well as for all other animals, and when he 
compared his African species with the Banksian specimens 
named by Fabricius, he worked with the critical insight of 
a trained and acute observer. The investigation of his con- 
clusions has made it clear that his interpretations are in some 
instances more correct than those which have since been 
adopted and have become the basis of existing terminology. 
The number of specimens tn various groups existing 
an the Hope Collection. 
I. LEPIDOPTERA AND COLEOPTERA. 
For many weeks Commander Walker has most kindly been 
at work upon a catalogue of the number of specimens in the 
Hope Collection. Members of the University have sometimes 
been astonished at the needs of the Department, and therefore 
it has been thought well to furnish a statement of the extent 
of the Collections at the present date. It is not possible 
to complete the list of all the Insect Orders in time for this 
Report; but the following statement is complete so far as it 
goes. The remainder of the list will appear in the Report of 
the present year. 
EE PIDOPTERA: 
EXOTIC RHOPALOCERA. 
Danainae, including . : 
; 3 5727 specimens in 170 drawers 
[thomtinae 
Satyrinae . 3 : e 5370 ‘ LOOes 9%, 
LE lymniinae 2 eo a LOqe ms 
Morphinae and a eaenaHiie 922 a SORT ays 
I~ 
Acracinae . i : Loa! - AOn Sos 
