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those classes on which the previously named gentlemen had last year 

 reported, as well as the Coelenterata and Protozoa. 



We would especially call the attention of the editors of scientific 

 journals and that of the secretaries of the learned societies to a very 

 important plea urged by Dr. Giinther in his Preface. Probably there 

 is no zoologist among our readers who has been in the habit of 

 writing on any branch of natural history who has not experienced 

 the great inconvenience which arises from the fact that the separate 

 copies of authors' papers have, in this country, always been repaged, 

 instead of retaining, as they ought to do, the original pagination 

 either alone or side by side with the repaging of the separate pam- 

 phlet. In order to quote such papers, therefore, it has hitherto been 

 necessary to refer to the journal from which each paper has been 

 extracted. Now such additionally required reference is in all cases 

 attended with inconvenience, and to the naturalist resident in the 

 country often impossible. The result is (a paper received by us this 

 very morning supplies an instance), when such authors' copies are in 

 the hands of subsequent writers they are frequently treated and 

 referred to as separate publications, and no allusion whatever is 

 made to the original work in which the paper appeared, and where 

 alone it can be generally consulted. Most warmly, then, would we 

 commend the suggestion of Dr. Giinther, that, " as regards separate 

 reprints of papers from Journals, Proceedings, or Transactions of 

 learned societies, a most excellent plan, adopted for many years by 

 the K. K. Zoolog.-botanische Gesellschaft of Vienna, and lately by 

 the Zoological Society of London, should be more generally followed, 

 viz. that of indicating the original pagination either at the bottom of 

 the page or at the top within brackets. The value of separate copies 

 is much increased thereby, as the time wasted in searching for the 

 original pages is saved." 



In the following table we give, first, the number of pages which 

 relate to each class of animals in the volume before us, and, secondly, 

 within brackets, the number of pages in the original publications 

 of which the foregoing supply an abstract : — 



Mammalia 63 (2400) 



Aves 85 (3500) 



Reptiha 24 (1300) 



Pisces 48 (3100) 



Mollusca 87 (4400) 



Molluscoida 8 (300) 



Crustacea ........ 60 (1500) 



Aracbnida and ) -■ i 

 Myriopoda \ 



(480) 



Insecta 330 (14300) 



(800) 

 (450) 

 (600) 

 (750) 

 Protozoa 14 (1030) 



Annelida 28 



Scolecida 12 



EcLinodermata .... 17 



Coelenterata 16 



It would be easy enough, no doubt, for a reviewer to find points 

 for criticism as to imperfection in the analysis given of some particu- 

 lar work or paper, or to cavil at some expression of opinion on the 

 part of the Kecorder himself ; but to do this would be most unfair. 

 It would be difficult to find men more competent for their work than 

 the several Recorders have proved themselves to be ; and it is mere 



