Report of the Hope Professor of Zoology, 1900. 



The additions in 1900 were numerous and valuable, but not 

 equal in number to those of 1899. The most important is 

 the extensive collection of N. Bornean butterflies made by the 

 late W. B. Pryer, Esq., presented by Mrs. Fryer. Important 

 gifts have also been made by Herbert Druce, Esq., F.L.S. 

 (many localities), R. Shelford, Esq., M.A. (N. Borneo), Guy 

 A. K. Marshall, Esq. (Mashonaland), S. L. Hinde, Esq., and 

 Mrs. Hinde (British East Africa), Professor Poulton (Majorca 

 and Minorca), Mrs. E. C. Bazett (Uganda), Dr. Henry 

 Strachan (Lagos), and R. C. L. Perkins, Esq. (Arizona). 



The British Collections have also received numerous im- 

 portant accessions, among which I must specially mention 

 a splendid partial albino female of the High-brown Fritillary 

 {A^'gynuis adippc), captured at Monks Risborough in 1896, 

 and presented by Miss L. B. Evetts. 



The final arrangement of the General Collection of butter- 

 flies was continued by Mr. Holland, the MorpJiinae (partially 

 finished in 1899) and Brassolinae being completed, and a con- 

 siderable part of the largest family, the NympJialmae arranged 

 in about 150 drawers. Allowing a margin of cabinet room for 

 Dr. Dixey's arrangement of the Pierinae, the part of the 

 collection mentioned above occupied the whole of the con- 

 signment of 200 drawers delivered in March 1900. Another 

 consignment of equal size was presented to the Department 

 by Professor Poulton, and delivered in November. Such 

 consignments require six months or more for completion, 

 and therefore the Common University Fund was asked if it 

 could provide the ;^2oo required for a further consignment of 

 200 drawers, to be delivered about the middle of the present 

 year. The sum was granted, and it is expected that the 

 cabinets will reach Oxford in about a month, A second-hand 

 cabinet was also purchased for the Department at Stevens' 

 sale in July, 1900. 



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