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Little Auk (Mergulus melanolcucos) ? , 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 1 volumes and i 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., 



