PREFACE. '^^tl^r 



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At the completion of oar fifteenth volume we again thank »"' 

 substberirnLbutors, and all those .ho ave >n any wa; hel ed 



„s to mamtam the ---^/^..^'^^fhS a stronger subscription 

 magazine came mto ^'^f ™^"^, J^^ \„^,i, -ooj scientific material for 



'"'b,>rti:n™'so'Z?if U bas'^ be la ter ten that delays have neces^ 

 publication, bo P «"' '"i "»« ' ^ g as quickly and 



:"X.?yT'po;sX', ^d tred£i:i staff alone has really suffered 



""'"f^ir-SeVpte'ra-'selS, thanks to the untiring energy of Mr. 

 Dorho,':a„l pTofe:rr Bekre. has been specWly well mai— 

 «nfl Mr Burr has kept the less popular section of Orthoptera J^^ovmg 

 We have now, thanks to Mr. Burr, considerable material relative to 

 ^Srthopte- ' m hand. That the contributions to our knowledge 

 of the Lepidoptera shows no falling oft is amply evident. 



We h-we attempted as far as possible to give a good supp y ot 



Xirn%^LwXcSaShrcantt ^^^^^^ ^o^ 

 pubTXrwrn beVbliked in one of the early n-be-^ 

 volume For our Special Index we are this year indebted to^^otessor 

 T nTdson Beare Messrs. M. Burr and H. J. Turner. Such detailed 

 LI ts always a great stram, and we are very ?^atefa indeed or 

 rJh kind help. The Rev. C R. N. Burrows will do the General 



'"'We'^relr'et most sincerely that our friend Mr. H. E. Page, who 

 has for ten years acted as the honorary business treasurer for the 

 m4az ne and whose great labour has largely enabled us to carry it on 

 3 constrained, thrmigh the continuously increasing work o his 

 S^partrent encroaching more and more on the tune necessary to b 

 aiven to his professional duties, to hand over the ^^'O'k to another, it 

 fs to us the more regrettable, since he considers that tbe increased 

 labour has ltt?e to do with the actual work necessary to the proper 

 conduct he magazine, but to the fact that a certam number of 

 subscnbers who seem to have no idea that the magazine is carried 

 on abolutely without profit-more than the receipts being spen 

 everyTearn^ts production) will not pay their BJ^^scriptions wi hout 

 continuous requests, a class of labour for which, as a rule, a profes^ 

 Clonal man has neither time nor inclination. Our new business 

 teasure^ asks that subscribers will treat him well in this respect and 



^r'ri , 7'i?r^L'B°Prout'^?'E"s"-: "The la™ °and%u" ^S 



"'e^B'S &■• b/nf H."!;."' K^ D^nis^h'o'rprFis., etc. 

 °' Iifconclnsiorwe a^in thank each and every one who has in any 

 way contributed to the success of the last volume. 



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