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Report. By far the largest separate piece of work was that 
involved in labelling Mrs. Bazett’s great collection of nearly 
7,000 British Micro-lepidoptera. 
4. Work on the Collections of Orthoptera. 
The following report has been written by Mr. R. Shelford, 
NA... F.L.S., RES. 22— 
Work on the collection of Blattidae has been continued 
steadily throughout the year, and has resulted in the prepara- 
tion of eight memoirs, some of which are still in the press. 
Those which appeared in 1907 will be found in the list of 
published papers in Section 10. As a consequence of the 
growing importance of the collection of Alattidae in this 
Museum, applications for assistance in determining the collec- 
tions of these insects in other Museums are continually being 
received, and collections have been sent for identification from 
the following Museums :—Brussels, Berlin, Deutsche Entomo- 
logische National Museum (Berlin), Genoa, Hamburg, Madrid, 
Melbourne, Paris, Stockholm, and Wiesbaden. As duplicates 
from collections sent for determination are invariably presented 
to this Museum in return for the labour expended on working 
them out, the increase in size and importance of the Hope 
Collection of Blattidae is bound to become very considerable 
in a comparatively short period of time. To take one example, 
Dr. Sjéstedt, of Stockholm, presented from the collection made 
by him on Mount Kilimanjaro over 50 specimens represent- 
ing 17 species and including 8 co-types; other important 
additions are noted in another part of this Report. Con- 
siderable attention has been paid to the accurate determina- 
tion of the species represented in the Hope Collection, and 
for this purpose type specimens have been borrowed from 
other Museums. Professor Baldwin Spencer, F.R.S., of Mel- 
bourne, Dr. Carl, of Geneva, Dr. R. Gestro, of Genoa, and Dr. 
G. W. Miiller, of Greifswald, have been extremely obliging in the 
matter of lending types for purposes of study and comparison, 
whilst Dr. Kuhlgatz, of Berlin, and Dr. Holdhaus, of Vienna, 
have been most courteous in rendering all assistance possible 
by kindly comparing specimens with types too fragile or 
