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It has been found tliat a condensed Eecord of all tliat 

 appears each year in the scattered literature of all parts 

 of the globe, on any branch of Science, is of most essen- 

 tial service to all scientific workers, and the " Zoological 

 liecord " was started in 1865 in order to supply this great 

 desideratum for all branches of Zoology. 



Twenty Volumes of the "Zoological Eecord" have 

 already appeared, and it was sanguinely hoped that by 

 this time the Subscribers to the work would have become 

 sufficiently numerous to make it self-supporting, or 

 nearly so. 



This, however, has not yet been the case, partly owing 

 to the increased cost of the publication (arising mainly 

 from the continuous increase in serial scientific literature, 

 which has all to be examined and collated by the Eecorders i , 

 and though valuable assistance has been received from the 

 British Association for the Advancement of Science, also, 

 formerly fi'om the Zoological Society of London, and more 

 recently from the Government Grant Fund of the Eoyal 

 Society, there is yet considerable risk that the work will 

 have to be discontinued unless an increased amount of 

 support can be obtained from new Subscribers. 



