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The Society's Collections are at present contained in Six Cabinets, 

 Forty-three Store-boxes, and Tivelve glazed Cases. 



Cabinet No. 1, consisting of 40 mahogany drawers in two tiers, contains the Collec- 

 tion of British Lepidoptera. 

 Cabinet No. 2, consisting of 42 mahogany drawers, in two tiers, contains the first 



portion of the general Collection of Coleoptera. 

 Cabinet No. 3 consists of three tiers of drawers. 



In tier 1 there are 25 drawers, containing the continuation of the gene- 

 ral Collection of Coleoptera. 

 In tier 2 there are 26 drawers, containing the remainder of the general 

 Collection of Coleoptera, Myriapoda, Onisci, Scorpions, and 

 Orthoptera. 

 In tier 3 there are 23 drawers, several of which contain exotic Papilio- 

 nidae, and the remainder of which is to be transferred, as far 

 as practicable, to the general Collection of Lepidoptera. 

 Cabinet No 4, consisting of 48 mahogany drawers, in two tiers, contains the Collection 

 of British Coleoptera, Hymenoptera (chiefly Aculeates), Diptera, and 

 the original specimens described by the late Rev. William Kirby, in 

 " Monographia Apum Anglise '' and the " Monograph of the Genus 

 Apion." 

 Cabinet No. 5, consisting of 18 drawers, contains the general Collection of Hyme- 

 noptera. 

 Cabinet No. 6, consisting of 20 drawers, contains the general Collections of Diptera, 

 Hemiptera, Neuroptera, and Arachnoida. 

 The Store-boxes contain miscellaneous Insects, principally exotic Lepidoptera and 

 Coleoptera, which have to be incorporated with the arranged Collections. 



The 12 glazed cases contain Insects from the East Indies, chiefly Lepidoptera, 

 lately presented to the Society, and which have likewise to be incorporated with the 

 arranged Collections. 



