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Report of the Hope Professor of Zoology, 1605. 
It has been customary in previous years to present a sum- 
mary of the chief accessions acknowledged in detail in the 
later pages of the Report. The growing length of these 
Reports, owing to the increased number of workers in the 
Department, and of donors who add to.its resources, renders 
it expedient to omit any section that is not absolutely 
necessary. This summary is therefore omitted. A full 
account—on this occasion longer than ever before—of the 
catalogued donations, under their respective years up to and 
including 1995, occupies by far the largest part of this Report. 
Hardly any mention has been made of uncatalogued 
donations. _This is because the increase in the staff encourages 
the hope that all outstanding gifts not hitherto provisionally 
recorded will be catalogued and formally acknowledged next 
year. 
Financial gifts and grants to the Department. 
The perennial difficulty caused by want of cabinet space 
has been temporarily relieved by the purchase, for £200, of 
530 well-made drawers from Mr. W. Schaus, F.Z.S. I desire 
gratefully to acknowledge the great generosity with which 
Mr. Schaus treated the University in this matter. The 
Professor contributed half of the necessary sum for this 
purchase. 
Dr. G. B. Longstaff’s kind assistance, enabling the Depart- 
ment to add another Assistant to its staff for two years, was 
acknowledged in the last Report. Mr. J. Collins has now 
been working for over a year, and the Department has had 
full practical experience of the great relief afforded by this 
generous gift. 
The University, in 1904, was unable to increase the annual 
grant by £100, as had been hoped, but provided an additional 
#50 for the year in question. In 1904 this was raised to 
#100, now assured by decree for three years. The wide 
conditions of the grant “for assistance and other expenses of 
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