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Before concluding I desire as in previous years to express 

 my indebtedness to the members of the staff of the Insect 

 Department, of the British Museum of Natural History, as well 

 as my satisfaction that the Hope Collection should have 

 afforded them assistance in their work. 



As regards research during the year 1900, I have already 

 referred to the work upon bionomic questions carried on upon 

 the collections of Mr. Guy A. K. Marshall, and Mr. R. 

 Shelford. A condensed account of the chief results was pre- 

 sented to section D of the British Association at Bradford by 

 Professor Pouiton. 



Mr. N. Annandale continued and completed his paper on 

 his observations in Siam. 



Mr. Malcolm Burr published a paper on the British Ortho- 

 ptera in the Hope Museum in the " Entomologists' Record " 

 for April, 1900, 



The important paper on Mr. C. V. A. Peel's Somaliland 

 captures appeared in the " Proc. Zool. Soc." for the year 

 1900 (p. 2). 



Volume H of the Hope Reports was not issued until the 

 beginning of the present year (1901). 



Additions to the Collection in 1896. 



Five butterflies from Cannanore on the Malabar Coast 

 (1896), part of a large consignment presented by A. G. 

 Cardew, Esq., M.A., Queen's College, which had been put 

 aside as duplicates, have now been catalogued for the 

 General Collection. 



Additions to the Collection in 1897. 



Since the last Report the valuable collections made in 

 Somaliland in 1895 and 1897, by C. V. A. Peel, Esq., and 

 presented in 1897, have been catalogued and incorporated. 

 The delay in publishing the paper describing the collection 

 was the cause of the work being postponed to so late a date. 



