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Mr. Holland’s time was principally occupied during the 
past year upon the large collection of Coleoptera. Several 
groups of this important collection have been arranged by 
him in the cabinets purchased from the trustees of the late 
Mr. Alexander Fry. All the specimens belonging to these 
groups in the Miers Collection, together with the whole 
Tylden Collection of Czrculionidae, have received printed 
labels with the fullest ascertainable data, and have been added 
to the General Collection. The specialist can now study this 
material in one comprehensive collection, in which the speci- 
mens are so arranged that they can be examined and moved 
without danger to themselves or those around them. Omitting 
smaller groups, the Scarabaeidae have been arranged in 180 
drawers, the Heteromera in 81, the Curculionidae in 102, the 
Flateridae in 24, the Malacoderms in 24, the Clerzdae in 1o. 
In addition to the above, the Axthribidae, arranged in genera 
and in large part specifically named by Dr. Karl Jordan of 
the Tring Zoological Museum, have been arranged by Mr. 
Holland in 13 drawers. Dr. Jordan’s determinations have 
been printed or written and affixed to each individual speci- 
men by Mr. J. Collins, who also undertook the labelling of 
the Miers and Tylden Coleoptera. 
Mr. A. H. Hamm has been chiefly occupied with the large 
collection of insects made in South Africa, &c., in 1905 by 
WiteGe Be ltongstath, Dr. FA. Dixey, the. Professor) and 
many others. A full account of this great accession will be 
found in the account of the 1905 accessions in the later pages 
of this Report. Much of Mr. Hamm’s time was also spent in 
setting, and printing labels for Dr. G. B. Longstaff’s West Indian 
and South American collections made in 1906 and 1907, and 
in resetting the old specimens in the General Collection of 
butterflies. Mr. Hamm also devoted considerable attention 
to the British Diptera and also to certain sections of the 
General Collection of this Order. 
In addition to work upon the Coleoptera arranged by 
Mr. Holland, Mr. J. Collins arranged nearly the whole of the 
Carabidae of the British Collection, and labelled and in large 
part printed labels for the accessions acknowledged in this 
