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many Orders presented by Mr. Shelford in 18g9-1g01. The 
great majority having been given in 1goo, all have been cata- 
Jogued under that year, and a statement of numbers in the 
various groups will be found in the later pages of this Report. 
The work involved in making this extremely fine gift available 
has chiefly fallen upon Mr. Holland, although a large part 
has also been undertaken by Mr. Collins. The specimens had 
been pinned and labels printed and affixed in previous years. 
The whole of the Geometrae, of which the South American 
species had been finished in 1905, have now been safely 
arranged by Mr. Holland in about 60 cabinet drawers, in 
place of the dangerous store-boxes in which they had been 
previously contained. The rearrangement of the Acracinae 
was begun, and has been since completed. Furthermore, 
a great deal of Mr. Holland’s time was occupied by the re- 
adjustment of the Daxainae and Nymphalinae, rendered 
necessary by the large number of accessions in these sub- 
families of butterflies, and in relabelling the outsides of the 
drawers. 
Perhaps the largest single piece of work undertaken by 
Mr. Holland during the year has been in connexion with the 
very fine collection of nearly 7,000 British Micro-Lepidoptera 
presented by Mrs. E. C. Bazett, of Reading, in 1905. The 
whole of these have been staged, and the data copied and 
classified ready for printing the labels. In addition to the 
above, Mr. Holland has continually been called away from 
other work in order to incorporate the numerous and varied 
accessions acknowledged at the end of this Report. 
A considerable amount of setting and pinning has been 
entrusted, as in former years, to the care and skill of Mr. 
A. Cant. The remainder—including large collections pre- 
sented by Mr. Guy A. K. Marshall, Mr. J. C. Kershaw, 
Mr. S. A. Neave, in conjunction with the British South 
African Company, and the Tring Zoological Museum, as well 
as the large collections brought from South Africa in 1905 by 
Dr. G. B. Longstaff, Dr. F. A, Dixey, and the Professor—has 
occupied the principal part of Mr. A. H. Hamm’s time. He 
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