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Hancock, M.D., of Chicago, was presented by the Colombo 
Museum, Ceylon. 
An important monograph on the Chelonethi of Siam, 
Copenhagen, 1906, was presented by the author, Dr. C. J. 
With, of Copenhagen. 
The Butterfly Hunters in the Carribees, by E. Murray- 
Aaron, was presented by Dr. G. B. Longstaff, D.M., New 
College, together with a memoir by A. Pictet, Esq. 
Professor R. Meldola, F.R.S., presented four volumes of 
separata on Insects. The great majority of these are now 
old and extremely difficult or even impossible to get, so that 
the gift is of the utmost value to the Library. 
Colonel J. W. Yerbury, F.L.S., F.E.S., presented a volume 
of separata on Oriental Insects, chiefly Lepidoptera, by various 
authors, together with Butterflies of India, by Marshall and 
de Nicéville, vols. i and ii. The same kind donor had pre- 
sented the third volume at an earlier date. 
The Catalogue of Anthribidae, by Monsieur A. Boire, of 
Brussels, was presented by Dr. Karl Jordan. 
The great increase in the literature of Orthoptera in the 
Department Library is due to the researches and the spccial 
efforts of R. Shelford, Esq., M.A., Emmanuel College, Cam- 
- bridge, F.L.S., F.E.S. The knowledge of the work going on 
in the Department, and the receipt of separata of Mr. Shel- 
ford’s researches, together with his letters, have combined to 
produce the donations of literature dealing with the Ortho- 
ptera, acknowledged in this Report. In addition to this valu- 
able help, Mr. Shelford has presented two of his own papers, 
together with memoirs on various insect Orders and insect 
economics by the following authors:—Dr. Y. Sjostedt, of 
Stockholm; Herr F. Meunier, of Brussels ; A.D. Hopkins, Esq. ; 
W. E. Hinds, Esq.; L. J. Webb, Esq. ; C. Stal (five memoirs) ; 
Dr. C. F. Adams (two memoirs); A. F. Burgess, Esq. ; 
Original papers have also been presented by the following 
authors: Dr. N. v. Adelung, of St. Petersburg (three memotrs) ; 
H.G. Barber, Esq.; Professor T. Hudson Beare, B.Sc.,F.R.S.E., 
F.E.S. (two memoirs); H. Rowland-Brown, Esq, M.A, 
