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pion and H. H. Smith (Central America), and C. M. Woodford (Solo- 

 mon Islands); so that all localities can be entirely depended upon. No 

 conditions are attached to the gift, so that the specimens can be at 

 once incorporated with those of the general collection as soon as they 

 have been adequately labeled. The collection also contains a large 

 amount of material which will be available to illustrate the principles of 

 Protective Mimicry, Geographical Distribution, Isolation, etc. The fol- 

 lowing table indicates the numbers of specimens now in Oxford. The 

 numbers of all Groups, which are marked as 'named,' are final; those 

 of the others will be somewhat reduced when they have been named and 

 compared with the existing collection .... among these Godman-Salvin 



specimens there are 826 specimens from [the Solomon Islands], captured 

 by C. M. Woodford .... several islands of the Group are represented, 

 including the extremely dangerous Maleita Island, where the collector 



could not venture beyond the range of the rifles of his guard 



This Department has also received many other valuable accessions during 

 1896. The large numbers of Rhopalocera kindly presented by A. G. 

 Cardew, Esq., [from India] J. J. Walker, Esq., R. N. [chiefly Oriental 

 and Australian] and G. A. K. Marshall, Esq., [from South Africa] are 

 of especial value because of the accurate data which accompany them. 

 Those of Mr. Marshall are accompanied by notes giving precise date, 

 locality, height above the sea, and statement as to wet or dry season form. 

 They are the most perfectly recorded specimens in our whole collection." 

 — From the report of Prof Edward B. Poulton, Hope Professor of Zo- 

 ology, to whom we are indebted for copies. 



