Museum, and the Hope Collections have greatly benefited by 

 the share which has been devoted to them. At these times 

 labels in large type have been printed on the Museum press, 

 and are now placed in the card-holders on the outside of 

 cabinets and of drawers, thus facilitating reference to the 

 Collections. This only applies to the parts of the Collection 

 which have been finally arranged. 



The immense additions made in 1897 have occupied so 

 much time in setting, printing, labelling, cataloguing and incor- 

 porating, that those of 1898 and 1899 have necessarily been 

 kept back. Even at the present date (June 1899) the 1897 

 additions are not all finished. In the meantime those parts of 

 the additions of 1898 and 1899, which were specially needed 

 in relation to the work which has been going on, have been 

 labelled and incorporated. In spite of the great strain thrown 

 upon our small staff by the 1897 accessions, I hope that we shall 

 nearly have overtaken our arrears by the end of this year. 



The Department has been greatly helped as in previous 

 years by the kindness of friends. Col. Swinhoe has continued 

 his work upon the Eastern moths. Dr. Dixey has continued 

 the arrangement of the Pierinae, and has worked out many 

 questions of the deepest interest, especially as regards the 

 seasonal differences in many species, and the transitional forms 

 which he has shown to occur connecting species which were 

 believed to be distinct. Mr. Arthur Sidgvvick and Mr. Pogson 

 Smith have now arranged the British Lepidoptera as far as 

 the middle of the Tortrices. Mr. M. Jacoby has continued 

 his valuable examination of our collection of Phytophaga. 

 Mr. Malcolm Burr (New College) has worked from time to 

 time in the Department, and has often rendered kind assistance 

 in the Orthoptera. Col. J. W. Yerbury visited the Department 

 and rapidly surveyed the general collection of Diptera, upon 

 which he wrote a very useful report, pointing out the groups 

 in which the Hope Collections are especially strong, and giving 

 a list of many of the important types which we possess. 



Several distinguished entomologists visited the Collections 

 in order to examine specimens in the groups in which they 

 are authorities. Such work always does great service to the 

 University in the better understanding of its Collections. 



