Report of the Hope Professor of Zoology. 
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By the end of the previous year it had become evident that 
the immense number of specimens requiring to be re-pinned 
and re-set would demand the attention of a special assistant 
for many years. Mr. Holland being occupied in arranging 
and classifying various parts of the Collection, in separating 
various sections for the work of others, and in looking out 
specimens to illustrate lectures, could devote but little time 
to this necessary labour. I therefore decided to employ 
a junior assistant for this purpose, and after much considera- 
tion, engaged H. Smith of Reading, who had already acquired 
considerable experience in manipulating the British Lepi- 
doptera and Coleoptera. He began work towards the end of 
January, and by the end of the year had made considerable 
progress, especially with the Lepidoptera Heterocera. 
The British Lepidoptera which had been commenced by 
Mr. Holland in the previous year, were completed, except the 
staging of the minute species. In the general collection the 
Sphingidae, Noctuinae, Geometrinae, Bombycinae, Syntomidac, 
Psychidae, Arctiidae, Agaristidae, Zygaenidae, Castntidae, and 
Uranidae were completed, with the exception of those 
American specimens which had been adjusted by Mr. Holland 
in 1894. Among the Lepidoptera Rhopalocera the majority 
of the Exploeinae, Danatinae, Acraecinae, and Heliconinae were 
also re-set. A considerable amount of printing was also 
undertaken by H. Smith during the latter part of the year. 
Mr. Holland named and classified the general collection of 
Sphingidae, arranging nearly the whole of it in three small 
cabinets containing altogether fifty drawers. When this 
arrangement has been completed by the addition of printed 
