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1894-1895. bones was transferred to two rooms in the basement, every speci- 



men being readily accessible for study. Mr. Ogilvie-Grant was 



absent for some time from work in the Museum, having received 

 special leave of absence to enable him to visit the Salvages with 

 the object of making a collection of specimens of their fauna. 



3 and 4. The collections of Beptiles, Batrachians and Fishes 

 (Mr. Boulenger) and of Mollusca (Mr. E. A. Smith) were in 

 perfectly orderly arrangement. The preparation of a volume of 

 Percoid fishes necessitated a rearrangement of the specimens of 

 this group. 



5. Mr. Bell continued the work on the collection of 

 Crustaceans, and completed the list of Maioid and Cancroid 

 Crabs. 



6. Myriopoda and Arachnida (Mr. R. I. Pocock). The 

 Myriopods and Scorpions were in so forward a state of arrange- 

 ment that any incoming accessions could be dealt with without 

 difficulty, MS. lists of the species and specimens in the collection 

 being completed. The very large collection of Spiders was still 

 in a very partial condition of arrangement. Mr. Pocock, how- 

 ever, had commenced preparing similar lists of a few of the 

 families, as the Aviculariidse, besides preparing faunistic reports 

 on some collections which reached the Museum about this time. 

 But the principal event was the donation of a large named 

 collection formed by Mr. E. W. Oates during a three years' 

 residence in Burma. Anxious to see this collection examined 

 and described, Mr. Oates had sent it for that purpose five years 

 before to Dr. Thorell, the well-known arachnologist, and offered it 

 with Prof. Thorell's MS. (which in fact was a complete descriptive 

 catalogue) to the Trustees. When received, it was found to 

 consist of 1550 specimens (exclusive of Myriopoda) referable" to 

 310 species, of which 153 were new. The Trustees sanctioned 

 the publication of the MS. under the title of " A Catalogue of 

 Burmese Spiders in the British Museum." 



7. The systematic arrangement of the general collection of 

 Coleoptera (Messrs. C. O. Waterhouse and C. J. Gahan) was 

 limited to the families Galerucidse and Eumolpidse, while a large 

 amount of unidentified material, or miscellaneous smaller sets, 

 as, for instance, the contents of small boxes from the Pascoe 

 Collection, were worked out or incorporated in their systematic 

 places in the general series. 



8. Three specialists were at work on Lepidoptera. Mr. Heron 

 steadily devoted himself to the collection of Butterflies, afc times 

 assisted by Mr. Butler and Lieut. E. Y. Watson. The incorpora- 



