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back to a much earlier date’, (Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. 1902, 
p. 402.) 
A large number of Burchell’s original drawings, Brazilian as 
well as African, and a small amount of manuscript are in the 
possession of the Rev. Evan Davies of Springs, who most 
kindly showed the whole to the Professor and gave him the 
fullest opportunity of studying them. 
On returning from South Africa in October the pressure of 
accumulated arrears has made it impossible up to the present 
to undertake the small amount of work still necessary before 
the publication of Burchell’s notes can be begun. The dis- 
coveries of Mr. Francis A. Burchell have also encouraged 
the hope that the missing part (March 18, 1829—Feb. Io, 
1830) of the Brazilian notes upon insects may yet be re- 
covered. Should this hope happily be realized, a little delay 
in the date of publication would be amply repaid by the 
appearance of a complete instead of an imperfect work. 
Visits of Naturalists. 
The usual visit of the Council of the Entomological Society 
of London was regretfully abandoned in 1905, owing to the 
pressure of preparations for the visit to S. Africa with the 
British Association. 
The Department has been visited in the course of the year 
by several naturalists, who have generously contributed to its 
collections, or have kindly helped in naming and arranging 
its material. Mr. W. J. Lucas, who has named and arranged 
the British Odonata (“ Dragon-flies ”); Mr. J. Hartley Durrant, 
who has assisted in the determination of obscure species of 
Micro-Lepidoptera ; Canon W. W. Fowler, D.Sc., M.A., Jesus 
College, who has arranged the W/embracidae (Homoptera), and 
is now working at the Oriental Cicindelidae ( Tiger-beetles ”) ; 
Mr. S. L. Hinde, who with Mrs. Hinde has presented such inter- 
esting material from British East Africa; Mr. Robert T. Turley, 
' This brief account of the recovered manuscript is modified from a statement 
prepared for the ‘ Proceedings of the Entomological Society of London,” for the 
date on which the Journal was exhibited (March 7, 1906). 
