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3. Financial Gifts and Grants to the Department. 
The Common University Fund granted the sum of £100 
in 1906, 1907, and 1go8 for the purchase of cabinets. This 
valuable help will nearly complete the payment for two sets 
of ten cabinets, containing between them 400 drawers of the 
standard size and interchangeable. One of these sets has 
been ordered, and is now being made. This space will 
become available for the two groups of butterflies which 
alone await final arrangement, the Papzlioninae (“Swallow- 
tails”) and Hesperidae (“ Skippers’’). 
The opportunity was also afforded of purchasing the late 
Mr. Alexander Fry’s cabinets, containing nearly 400 deep 
drawers of uniform size. These cabinets, with the drawers 
recorked, repapered and repaired, were bought for £163 1s. 5d., 
towards which the Delegates of the Museum contributed 450, 
the Professor £100. The space will be available either for 
part of the collection of moths or certain groups of Coleoptera. 
The 530 drawers purchased from Mr. W. Schaus in 1905 
are being gradually filled with the collection of Orthoptera, 
thus liberating a few of the fine old Standish cabinets for 
Diptera, Hymenoptera and Rhynchota. 
In addition to the grant for cabinets the Delegates of the 
Museum contributed a sum of £24 15s. to defray the cost of 
carriage by road of the Fry cabinets from London and the 
J. C. Dale Collection from Glanvilles, Wootton. 
The two years for which Dr. G. B. Longstaff kindly de- 
frayed the expense of an extra assistant came to an end at 
the close of 1906, but the generous donor has renewed this’ 
valuable grant for the present year. 
4. Work done by the Staff. 
Mr. Shelford’s work on the Orthoptera is described in the 
following section. 
One of the most considerable pieces of work undertaken in 
1906, and extending over into the early part of the present 
year, has been the sorting into groups, selection, cataloguing 
and incorporation of the vast collection of Bornean insects of 
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