78 Department of Zoology. 



STUDENTS. 

 (1888-89.) 



1888-1880. The number of visits of persons consulting the collections 

 was 8797 in the former, and 8360 in the latter year. 



1890. 



ARRANGEMENT OF THE COLLECTION. 



The Treasury being less reluctant to the temporary employ- 

 ment of specialists for certain definite work than to additions to 

 the permanent staff of the Department, sanctioned the assistance 

 of several ornithologists Messrs. Seebohm, P. L. Sclater, 

 0. Salvin, E. Hargitt and Count Salvadori for the more rapid 

 progress of the Catalogue of Birds, and, besides, granted provision 

 for employment of the extra-official time of Mr. Sharpe on the 

 same work. The Trustees also availed themselves of the long- 

 sought-for opportunity of engaging a very efficient entomologist, 

 Mr. (afterwards Sir) G. F. Hampson ; he prepared the eighth 

 part of the Illustrations of Lepidoptera Heterocera, in which 

 he described the species discovered by him in the Nilgiris, and 

 acquired by the Trustees. Another entomologist, Mr. W. Warren, 

 was engaged in the systematic arrangement of the Pyralidse 

 and Geometridse. Finally, to this list of auxiliary workers was 

 added Mr. George Brook, who undertook to catalogue the Mad- 

 reporarian Corals : a task so often commenced and interrupted 

 by changes in the staff through death or resignation. 



CATALOGUES. 

 (1890.) 



Catalogue of Birds. Vol. 13. By R. Bowdler Sharpe. 

 Pp. 701, with 15 plates. 



Catalogue of Birds. Vol. 15. By P. L. Sclater. Pp. 371, 

 with 20 plates. 



Catalogue of Birds. Vol. 18. By E. Hargitt. Pp. 597, 

 with 15 plates. 



GROWTH OP THE COLLECTION. 

 (1890.) 



With the sanction of the Lords Commissioners of H.M. 

 Treasury the duplicates of the Challenger collections, which 



