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Excerpt from The Hope Reports, Vol. 8: 1910-1913; With a Separate Appendix
The preceding volume of Hope Reports, the seventh, was issued more than three years ago, in the summer of 1910, the preface being dated June 20. The unusual length Of this interval is mainly due to the time occupied in rearranging the collections in consequence of the transference of a large part of them to the southern half of the old Radcliffe Library, and in preparing for the Second Inter national Entomological Congress, held at Oxford in August 1912. Much extra work was also caused by the long and painful illness and lamented death Of Mr. R. Shelford, the late Assistant Curator, and by difficulties Of various kinds which prevented his successor, Mr. R. S. Bagnall, from beginning regular work here until june of the present year.
The forty-nine octavo papers now accumulated fill two volumes of a rather more convenient size and weight than VI and VII. Nine other memoirs Of a much larger size are bound together separately, forming an Appendix to the present volume. Ten papers specially concerned with the African fauna occupy Volume ix,while the thirty-nine here collected, as well as the nine in the Appendix, deal with the most varied subjects. The memoirs in the Appendix, being of an unusual size, have appeared gradually during a number of years, and I have even included a single paper published in 1890. In the present volume, on the other hand, all except two of the papers were published in the years 1910 - 1913.
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