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ham, Mr. C. J. Gahan, Mr. E. E. Green, Mr. F. Merrifield, and 

 Mr. Roland Trimen, F.R.S. The party was very kindly enter- 

 tained in the garden of Merton College, on the evening of 

 July 5, by Mr. E. S. Goodrich, F.R.S. 



Mr. Eustace R. Bankes, F.E.S., has visited the Depart- 

 ment to study the Haworth types of British Micro-Lepido- 

 ptera ; Mr. Louis B. Prout, F.E.S., to study the types of 

 Geometrina ; Mr. Victor E. Shelford, of Chicago University, 

 the collection of Cichidelidae ; Mr. H. Eltringham, F.E.S.^ 

 the examples of mimicry in butterflies. 



The following entomologists have also visited the Hope 

 Department : — Professor A. Boving, of the Copenhagen Mu- 

 seum ; Mr. Edward Meyrick, F.R.S. ; Monsieur Leon Dufour ; 

 Mr. Selwyn Image, F.E.S. ; and Mr. Walter W. Froggatt, 

 Government Entomologist, New South Wales. It was a par- 

 ticular pleasure to welcome Professor and Mrs. Comstock, of 

 Cornell University, and to show them something of the work 

 and methods of the University Collections. 



The Department was also visited by Professor J. C. Ewart, 

 F.R.S. ; Professor J. S. Kingsley ; Professor Chancey Juday, 

 of the Wisconsin State University, Madison ; and Mr. Benjamin 

 Kidd. 



It was a great pleasure to be able to show a part of the 

 W. J. Burchell Collection to Mr. Francis A. Burchell of 

 the Rhodes University College, Grahamstown, great-great- 

 nephew of the illustrious naturalist, and one who has done such 

 invaluable work in the recovery of manuscripts and letters. 



10. Work published in 1907. 



The following papers by workers in the Hope Department, 

 or upon its material, have appeared in the Transactions of the 

 Entomological Society of London during the year 1908 : — 



Read Nov. 6, 1907. — Notes on some Butterflies taken in 

 Jamaica, by G. B. Longstafif, D.M., F.R.C.P., F.E.S., New 

 College. 



Read Nov. 6, 1907. — On some of the Butterflies of Tobago, 

 by Dr. G. B. Longstafif. 



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