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the Department,’ add to the value of the annual increase. 
Although such a sum cannot be expected to do much in 
bearing the great burden of the purchase of cabinets, in all 
other respects it is and will be of the greatest help to the 
Department. 
Early in the year Dr. Henry Wilde, Hon. D.C.L., D.Sc., 
F.R.S., generously gave £100 for the purchase, arrangement, 
and display of material illustrating Protective Resemblance 
and Mimicry in Insects. 
The assignment by the Delegates of the Museum of a sum 
of money from the Magdalen College grant is spoken of in 
the succeeding section. 
Work done by the Staff. 
It has been a great pleasure to welcome Mr. R. Shelford, 
M.A., F.L.S., Emmanuel College, Cambridge, as one of the 
workers in the Hope Department, on his return from a seven 
years’ residence in the tropics as Curator of the Sarawak 
Museum, at Kuching, Borneo. This important help in the 
work of the Department has been rendered possible by the 
assignment, by the Delegates of the Museum, of a portion of 
the generous grant made by Magdalen College, for scientific 
assistance. Mr. Shelford at once took control of the Hope 
Library, and began the great work of introducing order into 
the collection of Orthoptera. The University Collection of 
these important insects is one of the great collections of the 
world, but hitherto it has been of little use: its material 
scattered in various separate collections—the combined Hope 
and Westwood Collections, the W. W. Saunders, Miers, 
Burchell, the recently presented Malcolm Burr, and recently 
purchased De Bormans, Collections. In addition to these 
collections in which (except for the W. W. Saunders and 
De Bormans Collections) comparatively few of the specimens 
bear trustworthy determinations, there are large numbers of 
accessions from many donors and many countries, and these, 
with the exception of a small but valuable group, presented in 
1902 by Senor Don Ignacio Bolivar, are entirely without 
