ON OUR KNOWLEDGE OF THE CHIEOPTEEA, ETC. 



169 



May 



June 



VI. 



1879. 



1880. 



A List of Naturalists to whom Microscopic Preparations have 



BEEN SENT FROM MARCH 6, 1879, TO JUNE 5, 1880. 



Mr. Bruker, Constance . 

 Prof. Harting, Utrecht . 

 Mr. Haddon, Cambridge 

 Prof. Berlin, Amsterdam 

 Prof. Cossar Ewart, Aberdeen 

 Prof. Emery, Cagliari 

 Dr. Brandt, Berlin . 



Prof. Emery, Cagliari 

 Dr. Brandt, Berlin 

 Prof. Goette, Strasburg . 

 Mr. Geddes, Edinburgh . 

 Prof. Metschnikoff, Odessa 

 Prof. Todaro, Rome 

 Dr. Ludwig, Bremen 

 Prof. Du Plessis, Lausanne 

 Zoolog. Institut, Strasburg 

 Dr. Spengel, Gottingen . 



2 

 15 

 17 

 37 

 50 

 17 



8 



preparations 



Lire 

 1.50 

 20.91 

 23.10 

 52.78 

 70.00 

 23.80 

 10.90 



323.30 



Report on accessions to our knowledge of the Ghiroptera during the 

 past two years (1878-80). By Gr. E. Dobson, M.A., M.B., &c. 



[A communication ordered by the General Committee to be printed in extenso 



among the Reports.] 



One of the chief results hoped for from the publication of my natural 

 history of the order Ghiroptera,' as stated in the preface to that work, 

 was that it would be ' a stimulus to collectors and students to pay more 

 attention to this difficult and obscure group of animals than has been the 

 case hitherto.' How fully this hope has been realised has been abundantly 

 shown, not only by the publication of numerous papers on the subject in 

 various scientific journals, both home and foreign, contrasting remarkably 

 in number and quality, and especially in the number of difierent writers, 

 with those recorded in any previous period of like duration, but also by 

 the activity which has been displayed by collectors, as evidenced by the 

 contributions received at the different museums, and by the numerous 

 letters received by the writer from almost all parts of the world from 

 those whose interest in the Ghiroptera has been at length awakened. 



' Entitled Catalogue of the Chwoptera in the Collection of the Bntigh Museum. 

 Published June, 1878. 



