Expenditure. 2 1 



" The Field " newspaper ; and a great number of correspondents 1862-1869. 



and friends in the British Islands brought the collection of 



British Fishes to a high state of perfection. Finally Capt. 



Jesse Mitchell, who was then Curator of the Madras Museum, sent 



a large consignment of the Fishes of the Presidency, partly in 



spirit, partly mounted, the latter being distinguished by a 



degree of taxidermic skill which can hardly be excelled ; they 



were prepared by a native. 



The Entomological section acquired by purchase in 1867 several 

 large collections, the specimens of which fortunately had been 

 authoritatively named by specialists : a selection of 2945 specimens 

 of Buprestidse and Lamellicornia from the Robert Sakewell Collec- 

 tion, the Rev. Hamlet Clartts Phytophaga (5600 specimens) and 

 Hydradephaga (8000 specimens), and T. Vernon Wollaston's 

 Cape Verde Coleoptera (1535 specimens). In the following year 

 Desvignes' collection of British Ichneumonidae (6881 specimens) 

 and A. Murray's Nitidulidse (1062 specimens) were purchased, 

 while Mr. W. W. Saunders presented 2118 Neuroptera and 

 5213 Rhynchota and Diptera, in addition to 3207 Rhynchota 

 given in 1865. In order to assist the student of European 

 Lepidoptera a series of 641 specimens named by G. A. W. Herrich- 

 Schaeffer was purchased in 1862. 



The collection of Porifera received in 1868 a valuable addition 

 (the first for many years) through the purchase from Prof. Oscar 

 Schmidt of a set of the Adriatic Sponges described by him : 407 

 specimens and microscopic preparations. 



GRANTS FOR ANNUAL EXPENDITURE. 

 (1862-69.) 



In these eight years the grant for purchases was reduced to 

 1000, with the exception of 1862, in which it was maintained 

 at the old figure, viz., .1500. The grants for preparing specimens 

 and for the publications remained stationary, viz., at 700 for the 

 former and 1000 for the latter; only in 1863 these grants were 

 reduced to 600 and 700 respectively. For the purchase of 

 books 30 was now allowed. 



The special grant of 6000 for the purchase of the Cuming 

 Collection has been mentioned above ; it was probably the cause 

 of the temporary reduction of the ordinary grant. 



