Report of the Hope Professor of Zoology, 1906. 
Great progress has been made in cataloguing and in- 
corporating arrears, as well as the large number of accessions 
in the year under review. Full details will be found in the 
later pages of this Report. The additions to the Hope 
Library will be found to be far more considerable than in 
any previous year. The published memoirs which have 
issued from the Department or have dealt with its material 
are also more numerous than on previous occasions. 
1. Manuscript and other Records of Witham John Burchell. 
In the early summer of 1906, a large box of manuscript, &c., 
was most kindly sent to the Professor by Mr. Francis A. 
Burchell, of the Rhodes University College, Grahamstown, 
a grand-nephew of the great explorer and naturalist. The 
study of these invaluable records throws much light on the 
life of Dr. Burchell, and some of the chief results are briefly 
indicated in the form of foot-notes to the memoir in the 
Report of the British and South African Associations, 1905, 
vol. iii, pp. 57-110. Mr. F. A. Burchell has now most 
generously presented the whole of this material, with the 
exception of the originals of the letters and a single drawing, 
to the University. At a somewhat later date it is intended 
to publish in the GAZETTE a complete list of these priceless 
records. 
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