2 RECORDS VOLUME XI, JAN., 1919. 



Truly out of bitter strife great improve- 

 ments will arise which will make for human 

 progress and consequent happiness. 



Thus it is that Records begins a new de- 

 cade with the azure Star of Hope still in the 

 ascendent, and we trust that some of the im- 

 provement with which the world is to be fa- 

 vored will be reflected on its pages. 



As Records has ever strove to be educa- 

 tional, ever aimed to lead suggestively along 

 lines of scientific thought, such a plan will 

 he continued, possibly more strongly em- 

 phasized than hitherto, for the editor feels 

 that such a course would meet with the ap- 

 proval of his many readers. 



It remains to be mentioned that there 

 will be a Supplement to volume ten issued 

 in numbers during 1919. This will contain 

 matter appertaining to the Cerionidae a 

 family of Land Shells upon which Mr. May- 

 nard has been at work for many years and 

 of which 100,000 were collected by him on 

 the Bahama Islands in 1915; these added to 



