Report of the Hope Professor of Zoology. 
THE year 1896 was an extremely successful one for the 
Hope Department; for large and valuable presents have 
been received, and a great deal of work has been accom- 
plished, not only by the staff, but also by many friends who 
have kindly helped in their special lines of research. 
Thus the whole Collection of British Aculeate Hymen- 
optera has been revised by Mr. Edward Saunders; a part 
of the Collection of Phytophaga (Coleoptera) by Mr. M. 
Jacoby ; the Membracidae and Cicadae by Canon Fowler, 
assisted by Mr. W. F. Kirby. In order to render this kind © 
and valuable help possible the specimens were sent to the 
gentlemen named above, but nearly all of them have now 
been returned. 
Much help has also been received from friends who have 
visited the Department. Mr. Philip P. Calvert of Phila- 
delphia assisted in making out Rambur’s types of Odonata ; 
Mr. Roland Trimen, F.R.S., and Mr. G. A. K. Marshall with 
the African Rhopalocera; Col. Bingham with the general 
Collection of Aculeate Hymenoptera; Mr. G. A. Boulenger, 
F.R.S., with the Collections of fishes, amphibia, and reptiles. 
Among residents Dr. Dixey has continued his arrangement 
and study of the Pierinae, Col. Swinhoe of the Oriental 
Heterocera, Mr. Arthur Sidgwick and Mr. Pogson Smith of 
the British Lepidoptera. 
Mr. Sidgwick kindly presented the Department with a 
fine set of entomological forceps. 
Mr. A. W. Pickard-Cambridge began the revision of the 
British Coleoptera, but was prevented from carrying on the 
work by the pressure of other duties. 
It is my pleasant duty to thank all the eminent entomo- 
logists I have named for their kind help to the Department 
and the University. 
Mr. and Mrs. Garstang have continued to work, principally 
upon Crustacea, in the East Laboratory, for which a Jung 
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