i fe) 
Little Auk (Mergulus melanoleucos) 9, shot on Port 
Meadow, Oxford, while diving in the floods, in January, 1895, 
by E. Mott, from whom it was purchased. 
THE HOPE LIBRARY. 
Miss Swann presented 4 lithograph portraits of naturalists, 
a set of coloured sketches of flowers, and a large number 
of valuable manuscript notes by the late Professor Westwood, 
and 2 volumes and 1 pamphlet which belonged to him. 
Two valuable books containing manuscript notes by Sir 
Sydney Saunders, on his collection of Hymenoptera, now 
in the Hope Department, were presented by Edward 
Saunders, Esq. 
The Transactions of the Entomological Society, and the 
Transactions and Journal of the Linnaean Society for the 
year 1896, were presented by Professor Poulton. 
The Biological Department of the Owens College, the 
Bombay Natural History Society, the Boston Society of 
Natural History, the Chicago Academy of Sciences, the 
Zoological Museum of the University of Genoa, presented 
their publications for the year. The Radcliffe Library pre- 
sented the Catalogue of Books added during 1896. The 
New York State Museum presented its Report for 1894. 
The acknowledgement was inadvertently omitted in the 
Report for the year. 
Canon W. W. Fowler presented the Parts of his monograph 
on the Membracidae in the Biologia Centrali-Americana, 
published during the year. 
Several volumes and pamphlets formerly in the Ashmolean 
Museum were transferred to the Department, including a very 
fine Buffon’s Natural History in 127 volumes. 
A few volumes and pamphlets from the Proceedings of 
the Ashmolean Society were given to the Department. 
Copies of Original Papers were also presented to the 
Library by the following authors :—Rev. T. R. R. Stebbing, 
Sir George F. Hampson, Bart., S. H. Scudder, Esq, Col. 
Swinhoe, Hamilton Druce, Esq., Edward Saunders, Esq., 
