400 drawers is complete ; for it has been found that at least 

 this period must elapse between the order and delivery. 



The first volume of the Hope Reports appeared on 

 June 14. This volume contains copies of the various 

 original memoirs which were written in connexion with the 

 Hope Department between June 1893 and June 1897. During 

 these four years much time and attention has been devoted 

 to securing increased space and many necessary conveniences 

 for work in the Department ; so that it is confidently to be 

 hoped that the succeeding volumes will appear at much 

 shorter intervals. Indeed the materials for Volume H are 

 already accumulating rapidly. The volume has been or will 

 be distributed to Hope Curators, Delegates of the Museum, 

 College and University Libraries, and to the majority of those 

 interested in the progress of Science in Oxford. Outside 

 Oxford they are sent to the chief Scientific Libraries of 

 England, the Continent and America. 



Volume I contains 16 memoirs by W. Garstang, M.A., 

 W. Schaus, F.Z.S., F. A. Dixey, M.A., M.D., and Professor 

 Poulton, M.A., F.R.S. 



Additions to the Collection. 



Fifty-six specimens of butterflies, captured April 5, 1896, 

 near Durban, Natal, by D. Chaplin, Esq., were presented by 

 F. D. Godman, Esq., and O. Salvin, Esq. Many of these 

 are of especial value in providing material for the separate 

 series illustrating Mimicry and Common Warning Colours. 



A Dipterous insect from the Isle of Wight was presented 

 by B. S. Ogle, Esq. 



A very valuable set of 13 Forficnlidae from Lombok, 

 W. Java, and S. Celebes, and 3 Orthoptera from Surinam and 

 W. Java, was presented by Malcolm Burr, Esq. (New 

 College, Oxford), together with 14 Neuroptera captured by 

 him at Esher. 



A fine set of larvae of Vanessa tcrticae, var. ichmisa, was 

 brought from Corsica by H. C. Playne, Esq., M.A. (Univer- 

 sity College), and bred in the Department together with one 



