The importance of the zoological collection made during the Royal Society Expedition to the Solomon Islands will only become evident when more detailed studies of the specimens have been published. The papers presented during this discussion meeting have provided an indication of the information that will then be available on a wide variety of taxa. The large collections must be considered in conjunction with the results obtained by other expeditions, particularly those organized to many Pacific Islands by the Entomological and Malacological departments of the Bernice P. Bishop Museum, Hawaii, and by the Copenhagen Museum to Rennell and other islands in Melanesia. It is to be hoped that all these investigations will benefit from the cross fertilization of information.