(i eae of the Institute, and Societies in correspondence with it, 
would confer a great favor, if they would send to the Council, for 
distribution to Scientific Institutions whose sets of the Institute’s publications 
are incomplete, any duplicate or otber spare copies which they may possess 
of back numbers of its Proceedings and Transactions. They should be 
addressed : 7he Secretary of the N. S. lustitute of Science, Halifax, Nova 
Scotia. 
THE attention of members of the Institute is dirccted to the following 
recommendations of the British Association Committee on Zoological 
Bibliography and Publications :— 
‘‘That authors’ separate copies should not be distributed privately 
before the paper has been published in the regular manner. 
‘‘That it is desirable to express the subject of one’s paper in its title, 
while keeping the title as concise as_ possible. 
~ ‘That new species should be properly diagnosed ang figured when 
possible. 
‘“That new names should not be proposed in irrelevant footnotes, or 
anonymous paragraphs. 
“That references to previous publications should be made fully and 
correctly, if possible in’ accordance with one of the recognized sets of 
rules of quotation, such as that recently adopted by the French Zoological 
Society.” 
