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refused to allow their names to appear in our list, fearing to be over- 

 whelmed with frivolous applications, a danger we have done our 

 utmost to guard against ; thirdly, the names of four of these gentlemen 

 are in our list ; lastly, Mr. Garwood's reply only reached us on 

 December 13th. We are still unable, for reasons indicated, to quote 

 this list of Mr. Garwood, but we have pleasure in referring our readers 

 to it, either in the Geological Magazine, November, i8g6, p. 520, or in 

 the forthcoming Report of the British Association. 



We should also recommend geologists who do not find their 

 wants provided for in our list, to refer to the annual volume of the 

 Palaeontographical Society, where they will find a goodly list of 

 monographs in course of preparation or publication, the authors of 

 which ought to be glad of material. 



The Naturalist does us the honour of making the following 

 criticism: — "We may point out serious omissions in these con- 

 ditions, and we think it ought to be made clear that in return for the 

 full acknowledgment to be given of the specialists' assistance, the 

 specialist himself should undertake to give a correspondingly full 

 acknowledgment to the sender of the material on every occasion of 

 publishing notes on the specimens, and also that the right of priority 

 in publication is also to be reserved to the sender." With the former 

 condition we fully agree, but as regards the latter we must point out 

 that it would lead to a danger we are doing our best to fight against, 

 namely, the preliminary publication of imperfect descriptions, or even 

 of hosts of nomina nuda. Of course we take it for granted that our 

 specialist friends have still some sense of honour lefi, and will not rob 

 the stratigrapher of all his new facts and conclusions. 



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