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have received the Report of the South African Museum for 1897. The principal event was the opening of the new museum building on April 6th, the old building having been closed to the public on January 19th. The number of additions to the collection is very satisfactory, as the following details prove:—

The Director, Mr. W.L. Sclater, reports:—"The general state of the collections is satisfactory. The new cases are completely dust-proof, and, as far as can be seen at present, seem to be quite insect proof; any incipient attacks of museum pests can be easily dealt with by the introduction of a saucer of carbon bisulphide into the case, the fumes of which at once destroy any living matter."

In Mr. L. Péringuey's report on the Department of Entomology we read:—"The most interesting discoveries of the year have been the existence of a representative of the curious family Embiidæ of the order Neuroptera (gen.? Oligotoma) not before recorded in South Africa; and the curious parallelism of some coleopterous forms inhabiting the Cape and the Canary Islands, as exemplified by captures made by Mons. A. Raffray