CORRESPONDENCE. 



Bibliographical Reform and the Zoological Record. 



In " Natural Science, May, 1895, pp. 333-33S, there appeared an article with 

 the above title, signed Herbert Haviland Field. From the general tone of the 

 article, and from some of the expressions made use of by Mr. Field, it might be 

 inferred that he is writing on behalf of the Zoological Record, and with the sanction 

 of those connected therewith. I, therefore, ask to be allowed to inform your 

 readers that this is not the case, and that the article must not be taken as in any way 

 authorised by those engaged in carrying on the Record. The statement in the 

 article as to the annual deficit is quite incorrect. 



The existing and long-established Zoological Record is superintended by a 

 committee of zoologists appointed by the Council of the Zoological Society of 

 London, to which Society the Record belongs. I may, therefore, say, in reference to 

 Mr. Field's phrase about the desire of " zoologists personally connected with the 

 Record ... to raise the standard of the work," that I shall be very much 

 obliged if such persons will communicate with the Zoological Record Committee 

 (3 Hanover Square, London), or with myself, as I should much regret that such 

 aspirations should be fruitless. 



University Museum of Zoology, Cambridge, D. Sharp, 



May 7th, 1895. Editor of Zoological Record. 



[From our editorial communications with Dr. Field, who is now abroad, we are 

 able to say that nothing was further from his intention than any attempt to criticise 

 Dr. Sharp's conduct of the Record, or to interpose between the Zoological Society 

 and the Record. The statement as to the annual deficit was taken from Dr. Sclater's 

 official letter to the secretary of the Geological Society, published in Nature for 

 December 7th, 1893. It is greatly to Dr. Sharp's credit that the deficit has been 

 reduced since. But Dr. Field's general point was that there is an annual loss, and 

 that the Zoological Society, by making use of international co-operation, might be 

 relieved of this financial burden, while the actual conduct of the Record would 

 remain in the hands of its committee, and of the present editor. — Editor, Natural 

 Science.] 



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