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REPORT — 1901. 



concludes that the Peripatidfe must once have had a common centre of 

 distribution either in Africa or in some lost continental tract which 

 formerly afforded a means of land communication between Africa, the 

 Malay region, and South America. 



2. The collection of Spiders and other Arachnids, of which more than 

 one third have been determined as new by M. E. Simon (Paris), the great 

 authority on this group. 



3. The collection of Insects. 



4. The collection of Oligochseta (the majority of which ai'e new). 



5. A good piece of work is Mr. Evans's account of the formation of 

 the gemmule in Efliydatia. 



The information about the rest of the collection is not yet fully avail- 

 able. I append, however, for convenience' sake, a table showing the groups 

 to which the specimens collected belong, together with a list of the 

 authorities who have kindly consented to work them out. 



' Cp. also F. E. Beddard on a freshwater Annelid of the genus JBothrioneuroii 

 IB. iris, n. sp.] in Pt. I. 1901 (p. 81) of the P.Z.S. 



