sented by Mrs. Bazett. He also rearranged the Satyri7iac^ 

 which had entirely outgrown the space originally allotted 

 to them, and arranged the American and Eastern Papilioninac. 

 In the former work he followed the order of the British 

 Natural History Museum, a manuscript list of the species 

 having been most kindly prepared for this purpose by 

 Dr. G. B. Longstaff. In the arrangement of the Papilioninae, 

 Rothschild and Jordan's masterly monograph was followed. 

 The American Papilios were very kindly named by Dr. Jor- 

 dan, and the determinations of the Eastern species confirmed 

 by him on one of his visits to the Department. In addition 

 to this important work on the Lepidoptera, Mr. Holland 

 brought together and made a preliminary arrangement of 

 the material belonging to the Coleopterous groups, — Staphy- 

 Ihiidac, Pselaphidac, and Scydmacnidae ; at the same time 

 sorting into their proper groups a large number of Coleoptcra 

 scattered through the Collection, and fusing together the 

 separate collections belonging to the same group. He also 

 spent much time in putting fresh naphthaline in the drawers 

 and in classifying and making a preliminary list of a very 

 large collection of butterflies presented by Mr. C. F. M. 

 Swynncrton from Chirinda Forest, Gazaland, S.E. Rhodesia. 



Mr. A. H. Hamm completed the resetting of the general 

 collection of butterflies, a great piece of work, upon which 

 he has been engaged intermittently for many years. The 

 groups finished in the course of 1908 were the Papilioninac, 

 Satyrinae, Acracinae, Heliconinae, and the last part of the 

 NympJialinae. Much of his time was also occupied in setting 

 and printing labels for the specimens collected by Dr. Long- 

 staff in Ceylon ; incorporating the fine accessions of British 

 Diptera presented by Col. J. W. Yerbury, and bringing 

 together the great collection of Majorcan and Spanish speci- 

 mens for cataloguing. Mr. Hamm also expended much time 

 upon the collection of Diptera and the valuable series of 

 Asilid flies from the Bigot Collection presented by Mr. G. H. 

 Verrall. 



Col. Yerbury's collection of British Diptera provided the 

 largest single piece of work undertaken by Mr. J. Collins 



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