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monograph on the Rhynchota Homoptera, voh ii, in the 

 Biologia Centrali- Americana. 



The Agent-General for Queensland presented the ''Annals 

 of the Queensland Museum," No. I. 



The National Museum of Rio de Janeiro presented its 

 Journal, vol. i. 



The Superintendent of the Museum of Zoology, Cam- 

 bridge, presented the Thirty-second Annual Report (for 1H97). 



The Radley College Natural History Society presented its 

 hst of the Fauna and Flora of the district. 



Sir John Evans presented the Memoirs of the Academy of 

 Science, Bologna, series v, vol. vi, 1896-7. 



Copies of original papers were presented by the. following 

 authors:— P. P. Calvert, Esq., of Philadelphia, Dr. A. G. 

 Butler, Abbott H. Thayer, Esq., of New York, Dr. H. J. 

 Hansen and William Sorensen, Frank Finn, Esq., Herbert 

 Druce, Esq., Guy A. K. Marshall, Esq., Roland Trimen, Esq., 

 Hon. M.A., F.R.S., and Dr. Karl Jordan. 



Miss E. A. Ormerod very kindly completed the set of her 

 valuable '^Reports of Observations of Injurious Insects" in 

 the Hope Library, presenting the i6th to the 21st for the 

 years 1893 to 1898 both inclusive, and also the '■ Report" for 

 1884 which was missing from the earlier set. Miss Ormerod 

 also presented the following volumes of which she is the 

 authoress, " Handbook of Insects Injurious to Orchard and 

 Bush Fruits, with Means of Prevention and Remedy," London, 

 1898, "A Text-book of Agricultural Entomology," London, 

 1892, and "A Manual of Injurious Insects/' London, 1890. 

 This kind present will be of great value to the important 

 section of the Hope Library which deals with P^conomic 

 Entomology. 



" British Orthoptera," Huddersfield, 1897, was presented by 

 the author, Malcolm Burr, Esq. 



A few second-hand books were purchased together with 

 the Zoological Record, the parts of Barrett s " British 

 Lepidoptera," the Ray Society volume, and the parts of 

 Rippon's " Icones Ornithopterarum " for the year. 



EDWARD B. POULTON. 



