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cordial welcome that he invariably gave to the occupants of the British 

 Association table at the Station. Dr. Bernhardt Dohrn succeeds his 

 distinguished father as Director of the Station, and to him the Com- 

 mittee are already' indebted for many acts of genial consideration and 

 hospitality. 



The Committee ask for reappointment, with a grant of 100L 



Index Generum et Specierum Animalium. — Report of the Committee, 

 consisting of Dr. Henry Woodward (Chairman), Dr. F. A. 

 Bather (Secretary), Dr. P. L. Sclater, Kev. T. K. K. Stebbing, 

 Dr. W. E. Hoyle, Hon. Walter Kothschild, and Lord Wal- 



SINGHAM. 



Continuous and steady progress has been made by Mr. Davies Sherborn 

 in the preparation of Volume II. of this Index. Since the report for last 

 year was sent in, Mr. Sherborn has dealt with the remainder of the 

 separate works by authors whose names begin with C, and of these the 

 various editions of Cuvier proved exceptionally long and tedious to 

 analyse. Other works have also been dealt with as opportunity offered. 



Valuable assistance has been rendered by Mr. Hartley Durrant, who 

 lent from Lord ' Walsingham's library (presented to the Trustees of the 

 British Museum) a fine copy of the extremely rare work by Billberg, 

 ' Enumeratio Insectorum,' 1820, which has been indexed and made 

 available for reference. 



The slips, which are preserved in the British Museum (Natural 

 History) by the kindness of the Trustees, are quite in order for those 

 who wish to consult them, and are of exceptional value to anyone 

 monographing a particular genus. 



Mr. Sherborn and Mr. H. 0. N. Shore have written a paper clearing 

 up the difficulties surrounding Sowerby's ' Conchological Illustrations ' 

 and Gray's ' Descriptive Catalogue of Shells,' * and Mr. Sherborn him- 

 self has written on the dates of the parts of Burmeister ' General Insec- 

 torum,' 1838-46. 2 



Systematic and regular work on this Index is greatly encouraged 

 by the friendly attitude of the Association, and the Committee, in 

 recommending its own reappointment, earnestly ask the Association 

 to continue this valuable help by a further grant of 100L 



The Zoology of the Sandwich Islands. — Twentieth Report of the Com- 

 mittee, consisting of Dr. F. Du Cane Godman (Chairman), Mr. 

 D. Sharp (Secretary), Professor S. J. Hickson, Dr. P. L. Sclater, 

 and Mr. Edgar A. Smith. 



Another part of the ' Fauna Hawaiiensis ' is about to be issued by the 

 Committee. This will complete the descriptive part of the work. As 

 it appears desirable to issue also a general summary of the Committee's 

 work, tbe Committee ask to be reappointed without a grant. 



1 Prcc. Malac. Soc, September, 1909, pp. 331-340. 

 * Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., January, 1910. 



