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the work had to be temporarily stopped. Miss Shelford has 
now kindly undertaken to continue this much-needed work 
until Miss Bellamy is able again to undertake it. 
The portion of the card catalogue already completed is of 
the greatest value, and is continually consulted. 
A certain amount of binding has been done, but almost 
exclusively of accessions, and practically nothing to overtake 
the vast arrears. A considerable sum of money ought to 
be spent in securing the older part of the Library from 
injury. 
A very interesting and somewhat amusing letter from the 
founder of the Hope Chair was found among the correspond- 
ence of the late Rev. H. Adair Pickard, M.A., Christ Church, 
and kindly presented to the Hope Department by, Mrs. Adair 
Pickard. It was written Feb. 27, 1857, from Nice, to the 
President of the “ Oxford University Entomological Society,” 
the Rev. H. Adair Pickard. 
Two minute books of the “ Oxford University Entomo- 
logical Society” exist in the Hope Department Library. 
The meeting first recorded is dated June 1, 185[8]. An 
injury to the page has obliterated the fourth figure of the 
year, but as the next meeting was held Nov. 2, 1858, there 
can be no reasonable doubt about the date. Inasmuch as 
“the minutes of the last meeting” were read and confirmed 
on June Ist, it is evident that earlier minutes at one time 
existed. The Society continued to exist as late as 1872, 
when the last unconfirmed minutes appear under the date 
May 2. Professor Westwood had then been President for 
many years. “After some conversation about the prospects of 
the Society and summer excursions, the meeting adjourned,” 
and apparently never re-assembled. 
The circumstances under which the Entomological Society 
of Stockholm presented its Entomologisk Tidskrift up to date, 
together with arrears from 1893, and the German Entomo- 
logical Society its Deutsche Entomologische Zeitschrift, for the 
same period, have already been explained. 
The Boston Society of Natural History and the Bombay 
