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cases, when the specimens were finally recovered it was 
found that they had been quite insufficiently labelled by the 
original author. In this way the assistance given to others 
has been the direct means of rendering the collections more 
valuable and efficient. 
The Papilioninae and the //esperidae are the only butter- 
flies which now await arrangement. The work necessary 
for naming the former was nearly completed some years 
ago, while Dr:°F. D. Godman, Hon. D.C.L., F.R.S., has 
kindly consented to name the South American Hesperids, 
and Mr. Hamilton H. Druce those of the remaining Regions. 
The completion of the arrangement of the most popular 
group of insects, the butterflies, is therefore near at hand. 
But while one part is being arranged the others are rapidly 
growing, so that a certain amount of adjustment and re- 
arrangement will always be necessary. 
Another large piece of work has been the removal of 
a part of the classical W. W. Saunders collection of moths 
from the dangerous store-boxes in which they were placed 
by their original owner. The group dealt with contains the 
South American Geometridae: these now occupy 28 cabinet 
drawers, and the old and fragile specimens, liable to be blown 
to pieces by the draught every time an old store-box was 
opened, are now comparatively secure. This part of the 
collection contains the original types of about 200 species. 
These specimens, which are of priceless value to the 
systematic naturalist, have been all conspicuously labelled 
by Mr. Holland. Similar treatment of the whole Saunders 
Collection is a pressing need. 
Furthermore, the Oriental Czcindelidae (“ Tiger-beetles”’) 
had to be disentangled from the Collection for Canon W. W. 
Fowler’s monograph now in course of preparation, and the 
South American Hesperidae for identification by Dr. F. D. 
Godman. In the early part of 1905 much help was given by 
Mr. Holland to Miss Bellamy in her work on the Hope 
Library, and much time was occupied in searching for 
Burchell’s specimens for the Professor. 
