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students— was, for some years, restricted to sixty poisons, as a 

 maximum, in any one day,"* it is hardly surprising that the 

 general public should not have greatly exerted itself to add fco 

 the collection of Insects. 



The exact rate of increase to the collection cannot In- 

 accurately discovered until 1876, at which date the number of 

 additions to the Class was first recorded in the Annual Report of 

 Progress. Prior to that date the term " Annulosa " was employed 

 for the Arthropoda generally, for many years, and subsequently 

 for all excepting the Crustacea ; there is, however, one exception 

 to this rule in 1844, a year in which the additions to the 

 Annulosa were greatly in excess of those in previous years, 

 amounting to no less than 19,191 (of which 18,436 were insects). 



Progress in the Arrangement op the Collections. 



Nothing very definite is known respecting the earlier arrange- 

 ment of the Insect collections, but there is internal evidence to 

 show that from 1813 to 1835 it was carried on by Dr. W. E. 

 Leach, and Messrs. J. G. Children and G. Samouelle ; from 1835 to 

 1842 the greater part of the work of arrangement in all Orders 

 was continued by Mr. Adam White. At that date Mr. Edward 

 Doubleday relieved him of the care of the Lepidoptera, and. in 

 1850 Mr. F. Smith entered the service and took charge of the 

 Hymenoptera. So far as can be ascertained, the progress in the 

 arrangement of the various Orders between 1844 and 1900 is as 

 follows : — 



COLEOPTERA. 



From 1842 to 1850 this Order was under the charge of Mr. 

 Adam White, who, in 1846, arranged the Cetoniadse and, in 1847, 

 the Hydrocanthari ; commencing the Bu-prestidse the same year, 

 he completed them in 1848; then proceeded to the Cleridse, 

 completed in 1849. In 1851 Mr. F. Smith arranged and 

 catalogued the Gucujidse; in 1852, the Passalidx; Mr, Adam 

 White being engaged in the same and subsequent years upon the 

 Longicornia, which he completed in 1855; in 1856 Prof. C. H. 

 Boheman arranged and catalogued the Cassididse ; in 1856 also 

 the British Curculionidse were catalogued, and probably arranged, 

 by Mr. John Walton; in 1858 the Hixpidse were catalogued and 



* " Lives of the Founders," p. 324. 



