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every assistance ; they have an excellent library, a good collection to refer to 
and experts, who will name anything. For those in the neighbourhood of Cal- 
cutta there is the Indian Museum to refer to and the Director of Zoological Survey 
will offer every assistance ; there is a most complete library and the very complete 
DeNiceville collection. Visitors to England should inspect the National collec- 
tion in the basement of the South Kensington Museum, where Capt. Riley will 
do anything he can to help them. Don’t forget that all the three institutions I 
have mentioned will be very glad to receive specimens especially from out-the- 
way localities. 
[A subsequent paper by Col. Evans will deal with the method of identi- 
fying the commoner species of Butterflies. —Eps. | 
