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and Scorpions sent from Grahanistown by Dr. Schonland. From 

 India also very important accessions were received, namely, 

 940 Scorpions, Spiders, &c, principally from the Bombay 

 Presidency, presented per Messrs. H. M. Phipson and R. C. 

 Wroughton by the members of the Bombay Nat. Hist. Society ; 

 104 from Travancore, presented by Mr. Harold Ferguson ; and 

 98 specimens from the Persian Gulf, Baluchistan, &c, presented 

 by Mr. F. W. Town send. Valuable though less extensive col- 

 lections procured by Mr. F. Gleadow in the Himalayas and 

 Mr. E. E. Green in Ceylon were also received. 



1900. 



The accessions amounted to 994, of which the most important 

 was a collection of 103 Spiders and Scorpions, including several 

 new and rare species, collected by Mr. P. O. Simons in Peru and 

 Ecuador ; the Arachnida, including examples of several new and 

 subsequently described species collected by Mr. C. V. A. Peel in 

 Somaliland. 



1901. 



2187 specimens were added to the collection during this year. 

 The most noteworthy accessions were : — 200 Spiders from 

 Mauritius; 194 specimens from Cape Colony, including new species 

 of Acanthodon and Rarpactira, presented by Dr. Schonland ; 

 65 Arachnida from Cape Town, including four new species of 

 Hermachastes, Aranea, Agelena, and Lycosa, presented by the 

 Rev. J. Hull ; 280 Scorpions and Spiders collected in Cape 

 Colony by Miss Leppan, including many new species ; 45 Spiders 

 and Scorpions from Pearston, Cape Colony, presented by 

 Dr. R. Broom : 200 Spiders from New Zealand, presented by 

 Prof. F. W. Hutton ; 533 Spiders from Central America, the 

 representatives of the families Scytodidse, Filistatidse, Dysderidse 

 Clubionidse, Sparassidse, Brassidse, Anyphoenidw, and Thomisidse, 

 determined and described by Mr. F. O. Pickard Cambridge in 

 vol. ii. of the Araneidea of the " Biologia Central i- Americana " ; 

 presented by F. Du Cane Godman, Esq., D.C.L., F.R.S. 



1902. 



Accessions, 1798. 



A collection of 300 Spiders and Opiliones from Natal, 

 including many rarities and some new species, presented by 

 G. F. Leigh, Esq. ; 100 Spiders from Natal, including examples 



