Report of the Hope Professor of Zoology. 



The additions to the Hope Department during i (S99 are 

 very large and important, greatly surpassing those of 1898. 

 Nearly 7,000 specimens have been already catalogued and 

 incorporated, and large numbers can only be provisionally 

 acknowledged on the present occasion. Mr. Guy A. K. 

 Marshall's specimens from Mashonaland are, as on previous 

 occasions, the most perfectly collected and valuable specimens 

 received by the Department. Many of them illustrate 

 problems of natural history of the widest interest, and form 

 the evidence upon which the interpretation of several 

 extremely difficult questions is to be sought. Other accessions 

 are also of the highest importance, especially the valuable 

 collection of moths collected by Cecil Barker, Esq., in Natal, 

 presented by Roland Trimen, Esq., Hon. M.A., F.R.S. ; of 

 butterflies from Karwar, on the Malabar Coast, collected and 

 presented by G. Keatinge, Esq. ; and of butterflies from Sanda- 

 kan, N. Borneo, collected by A. L. Cook, and presented by 

 Herbert Druce, Esq., F.L.S. These, with the fine additions to 

 the collections of British insects, mark the year 1899 as a very 

 important one in the history of the Hope Department. 



The final arrangement of the general collection of butterflies 

 was continued by Mr. Holland, the Satyrinae, Elyinniiiiae, 

 AmatJnisiiuac, and part of the Morphinac, being completed in 

 150 drawers. At this point the available cabinet space was 

 exhausted, 40 drawers being kept in reserve for the Picrinae, 

 which Dr. Dixey was arranging. 



Towards a fund for the provision of new cabinets the 

 Delegates of the Museum granted £^0 to be paid in 1899, 

 and £^0 in 1900, and similar amounts were voted by Decree. 

 A further consignment of 200 drawers was therefore ordered 

 of Messrs. O. E. Janson & Son. Ten cabinets of 20 drawers 

 each were completed and delivered in March of the present 

 year, and the final arrangement resumed, the MorpJiinac and 

 Brassolinac being completed, and considerable progress made 

 with the immense group of the Nyiuphalinae, 

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