Neda te Sh ge ey Oe) lh 
Some  time-ago I understood from my friend, Mr. 
C. DAVIES SHERBORN, that he had completed an Index 
to the Tenth and Twelfth Editions of the “Systema 
Nature” of Linneus. 
I was anxious that a work of such obvious utility 
to all systematic zoologists should find a place among 
our publications, and requested his permission to bring 
the matter before the Committee of this Museum, with 
a view to publication. The suggestion met with a 
sympathetic reception, and the work is now issued in 
the hope that it may do something to help in bringing 
about that uniformity of nomenclature which is the 
great need of zoological science at the present day. 
Wn. E. Hoyte, 
Keeper of the Musewm. 
April 7th, 1899. 
