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INSTRUCTIONS. 



In Zoology, there are to be three kinds of slips, viz. : — (1) Title- 

 slips, (2) Subject-slips, (3) Systematic-slips. Each of these must 

 be drawn up in a special fashion. 



(1) Title-slips. — Each slip is to bear the author's name, the 

 exact title of the work or paper, and the proper reference to the 

 journal, or other book, in which it appears. In the case of 

 works published apart, the place of publication and the number 

 of pages and plates must be given. For further instructions as 

 to the preparation of the slips, see the Instructions for the use 

 of Regional Bureaus. 



The title-slips will be arranged by the Editor in the alpha- 

 betical order of the author's name. This name must therefore 

 be placed first. 



The title-slip should also bear one or more words to indicate 

 the taxonomical position of the animal, or animals, treated of. 

 The number of the Subject, or Subjects, it relates to should also 

 be added. 



In no case should two titles be written on the same slip. 

 Even when two papers by one author appear in the same journal 

 each should have a separate slip. 



When a title-slip [or other slip] relates to fossil forms, it 

 should be prominently marked f. If it relate to both fossil and 

 recent forms, it should be marked j"*. 



(2) Suhject-slips. — Each subject-slip should commence with the 

 number allotted to the subject ; this should be followed by the 

 sub-division of the Subject to which it relates expressed in the 

 language of the schedule. If it relates to some new sub-division, 

 or one not included in the schedule, this should be given as if it 

 were in the schedule, leaving the Editor to decide how it shall 

 be dealt with. In no case must two numbered Subjects be 

 placed on one slip. 



The slips for the Subject Geography must bear both the 

 number of the Branch referred to, and the symbol used in 

 Topographical Geography ; thus 0627 dg. 



[Z) Taxonomy and Systematic Slips. — Whereas in tiie Titles 

 the literature of Zoology is arranged according to the author, 

 and whereas in the subject -slips proper it is treated according 

 to the Biological subject, on the other hand it is treated in this 

 Section according to animals dealt with. The systematic-slip is 

 therefore to be a special kind of subject-slip. 



In this department the slip must commence with the number 

 of the Branch and Subject, and this must be followed by the 

 name of the animal the slip relates to, then a statement in one 

 or two words as to the way in which the animal is treated 

 (" Anatomy," or " description " or " n.sp.," etc.), then comes the 

 author's name, then the reference. 



