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which he is the leading authority. His brother, Monsieur 
Octave Bourgeois, has also been extremely kind in carrying 
the specimens by hand from Paris to S*® Marie-aux-Mines 
and back, and in carefully keeping them until they could be 
brought by the same safe means of transit from Paris to 
Oxford. 
Mr. Kenneth J. Morton, F.E.S., very kindly undertook to 
determine as far as possible the North American Odonata 
(Dragon-flies) in the Department. These were packed in 
four boxes and conveyed by hand to Edinburgh, and have 
now been returned. Professor Hudson Beare, F.E.S., kindly 
brought one consignment as far as London. Mr. Morton’s 
identifications are now marked on all the specimens. 
The large amount of kind assistance received by the Pro- 
fessor in working out the material of his memoir in Trans. 
Ent. Soc. Lond., 1906, p. 323, is fully acknowledged in the 
introduction. He wishes, however, again to express his special 
indebtedness to Colonel Yerbury for the large number of 
observations recorded in the paper, and for the immense 
amount of work involved in the determinations. 
Commander J. J. Walker has most kindly continued his 
labours upon the British Coleoptera throughout the year. 
The first great divisions, the Czcindelidae and the Carabidae, 
are now ready for arrangement, and the completion of this 
important part of the work will be announced in next year’s 
Report. This announcement will be accompanied by an ex- 
pression of deep indebtedness to Mr. W. Holland for the 
generous gift of his own fine collection of these Coleoptera, 
which will be arranged at the same time as those already in 
the Department. All the data and all the determinations 
of the older specimens in the Hope Collection have been 
carefully retained, so that the new arrangement will preserve 
all that is valuable and historic in the old. 
Dr. F. A. Dixey has incorporated in the collection of 
Pierinae the very large accessions that have come in during 
the year—a very considerable labour involving much re- 
arrangement. He has also published a number of communica- 
