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Abstract

IT is well known to all acquainted with the British Museum, that the staff of the Zoological Department is very insufficient for the needs of so large a collection. In the vast subject of entomo logy especially the number of assistants is quite out of proportion to the mass of material necessarily accumulating with the advance of geographical exploration. We are glad to learn that a step towards remedying this state of things is about to be taken by the addition to the staff of an assistant, to be specially engaged upon the collection of Coleoptera. The conditions upon which the appointment will be filled up are announced in our advertising columns.