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Tishes. — To the National Museum, Dublin. 



Mollusca. — To the Londonderry Museum. 



Insecta. — To the Bristol Museum ; the Haslemere Museum ; 

 .^nd the Museum of the Royal College of Surgeons ; and to the 

 .following gentlemen who have assisted in naming specimens : 

 — Mr. H. S. Barber, Mr. G. C. Champion, Mr. Isaac B. Ericson, 

 Dr. R. Gestro, Dr. K. M. Heller, Dr. Walther Horn, Dr. F. Ohaus, 

 Mr. S. Schenkling, Herr Adolf Schmidt, and Herr Hans Wagner. 



Crustacea. — To the Bristol Museum ; the Indian Museum, 

 Calcutta ; the Royal Scottish Museum, Edinburgh ; and Dr. R. 

 Dohrn. 



Corals and Sponges. —To the Bristol Museum and the 

 Londonderry Museum. 



(h) Exchanges. 



Exchanges have been made with the following Institutions 

 .-and individuals : — 



Mammalia. — With the Tomsk Museum; the Turin Museum; 

 Prof. Blasius ; and Dr. Lyster Jameson. 



Aves. — With Miss A. Chirnside ; Mr. H. K. Coale ; and 

 Mr. J. H. Fleming. 



Reptilia and Batrachia.— With, the Berlin Museum ; the 

 Vienna Museum ; and Dr. F. Werner. 



Pisces. — With the Indian Museum, Calcutta. 



Insecta. —With the Royal Museum, Berlin ; The Leicester 

 Museum ; the Zoological Museum of the Imperial Academy of 

 Sciences, St. Petersburgh ; The U.S. National Museum, Washing- 

 ton ; Prof. T. D. A. Cockerell, Dr. Walther Horn, Mr. 0. E. 

 Janson, Mr. Rene Oberthiir, Mr. C J. C. Pool, the Hon. Walter 

 Rothschild, and Herr C. Sternberg. 



Crustacea. — With the Bergen Museum, and the U.S. National 

 Museum, Washington. 



Porifera. — An exchange of Antarctic specimens has been 

 .made with Prof. E. van Beneden^ 



III. — Departmental Library. 



^he removal of the Library from the South-West Basement 

 Corridor to the Fish Reserve Gallery on the ground floor was 

 commenced in February and completed in June. The required 

 re-arrangement and the re-pressmarking of all the books has also 

 been carried out. Ninety-four separate works in 118 volumes 

 new to the Library, and 1,784 parts of periodicals and works 

 m progress have been acquired during the year by purchase, 

 presentation, and exchange. 



Two hundred and nineteen volumes have been bound. 



The Library now contains 11,333 separate works in 18,453 

 volumes. 



As in previous years,, the Attendant in the Library, under 

 the supervision of an Assistant, has checked the zoological 

 works catalogued in the proofs of the General Catalogue of 

 books. 



