The rapid increase in the Collections of the Australian Museum, 

 and the gradual acquisition of extensive aeries of new, or 

 little known forms from Australia, New Guinea, and the 

 Pacific Islands, have forcibly brought under the notice of the 

 Trustees the necessity of officially publishing the investigations 

 of their Scientihc Statf. Hitherto this has been accomplished 

 to a considerable extent through the medium of the local Scientific 

 Societies, but the Trustees now propose to publish under the title 

 of the RECORDS OF THE AUSTRALIAN MUSEUM, an 

 occasional periodical, to contain the Results of Original Researches 

 by the Staff, Reports of Collecting Expeditions, and other matter 

 relating to the work of the Museum. 



E. P. RAMSAY, Curator. 



