Fauna of New England. 



The Library and Publishing Committee will issue, as volume- 

 seven of the Occasional Papers, a Catalogue of the animals of 

 New England. 



Parts will be published at irregular intervals, and though the 

 details of the several lists will vary somewhat in the different 

 groups, each list will include, 1st, the accepted name (scientific 

 and vernacular); 2d, reference to the original description, with 

 record of locality; 3d, reference to^an authentic description and 

 illustration, and 4th, habitat and occurrence. 



The Committee considers these lists a necessary preliminary to 

 a series of comprehensive, illustrated monographs, the publication 

 of which it is hoped the Society will at some later time take upon 

 itself. 



The Committee also believes that these lists will aid in the 

 accumulation of valuable material for the New England collection 

 of the Society. With this in view a separate check list of names 

 will be issued with each part. In this check list the + indicates 

 a specimen in the Society's Museum; the — that a trustworthy 

 record exists. 



Toward the accomplishment of its aims the Committee invites 

 the cooperation of all interested in the Fauna of New England. 



Communications concerning specimens should be addressed to 

 the Curator of the Society (Chas. W. Johnson), notes and 

 records of occurrence to the Editor of the "Fauna of New 

 England" (Samuel Henshaw). 



Boston Society Natural History, 



234 Berkeley St., Boston, Mass. 



