cleaned and mounted on card "stages." In their present 

 state most of them make at least presentable specimens. 



The whole of the British Carabidae have now been arranged 

 in 60 drawers, the earlier half in 1907, the later in 1910. 



The University is deeply indebted to Mr. Holland for the 

 gift of his very fine collection — of especial interest as coming in 

 chief part from the Oxford and the adjoining Reading district; 

 to Mr. Donisthorpe for. examples of a very large proportion 

 of the known British Carabidae^ the rarest and most local 

 forms no less than the well known ; to Commander Walker 

 for superintending the re-arrangement and himself manipulat- 

 ing the most delicate of the old Hope-West wood specimens ; 

 and to Mr. Collins for the care with which he has re-arranged 

 the collection and borne so large a part in the manipulation. 



6. Work 7ipon the BtircJiell Collections. 



The manuscript of Mr. E. G. Joseph's work upon the 

 Heliconine butterflies collected by W. J. Burchell in Brazil 

 (1825-30) was completed by the end of 1909, but the paper 

 was not published until April 19 10 in Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. 

 (p. 322). Mr. Joseph then worked upon the Brazilian Acrae- 

 inae, and later upon the Erycinidae. The paper on the 

 former group was published in the same journal (p. 9) early 

 in the present year. 



The Professor took the opportunity afforded by the meeting 

 of the Entomological Congress at Brussels to submit the whole 

 of the Coprid beetles collected in South Africa (iSio-15) to 

 Professor J. J. E. Gillet of Nivelles. This eminent authority 

 kindly completed his examination in time for the Professor 

 to bring the collection back to England. Many important 

 modifications in the previous determinations were made by 

 Professor Gillet. 



7. Assistance in Working out the Material of the 

 Department. 



The kind assistance received in 1910 is, in large part, 

 acknowledged in other sections of this Report. I desire 

 here to acknowledge the generous and efficient help of the 



