476 THE ZOOLOGISY. 
NOTES AND QUERIES. 
‘The Zoological Record.’—It has been found that a condensed Record 
of all that appears each year in the scattered literature of all parts of the 
globe, on any branch of Science, is of most essential service to all scientific 
workers, and ‘The Zoological Record’ was started in 1865 in order to 
supply this great desideratum for all branches of Zoology. Twenty volumes 
of ‘The Zoological Record’ have already appeared, and it was sanguinely 
hoped that by this time the subscribers to the work would have become 
sufficiently numerous to make it self-snpporting, or nearly so. This, how- 
ever, has not yet been the case, partly owing to the increased cost of the 
publication (arising mainly from the continuous increase in serial scientific 
literature, which has all to be examined and collated by the Recorders), and 
though valuable assistance has been received from the British Association 
for the Advancement of Science, also, formerly, from the Zoological Society 
of London, and more recently from the Government Grant Fund of the 
Royal Society, there is yet considerable risk that the work will have to be 
discontinued unless an increased amount of support can be obtained from 
new subscribers. The annual volumes (stout octavos, which have latterly 
run to between seven and eight hundred pages) are sold to the public at 
thirty shillings. The volumes are supplied to subscribers in return for an 
annual payment of twenty shillings. After the first six volumes of ‘ The 
Zoological Record’ had been brought out by Mr. John Van Voorst, at his 
own risk, the Zoological Record Association was founded in 1871, as the 
most probable means of successfully continuing the undertaking, which 
would otherwise have dropped at the close of the sixth volume. ‘lhe 
Association has continued the work up to the present time. There are, 
probably, many local Libraries and Natural History Societies which would 
be quite willing to become subscribers to the work, especially if it were 
known that by so doing they would probably ensure the continuance of the 
publication, or at any rate avert the possibility of any immediate collapse. 
The Zoological Record Association consists ‘of members and subscribers. 
Members are public-spirited persons, who receive a copy of the annual 
volume, and make themselves liable to the extent of five pounds, in the 
event of the funds from all other sources not being equal to meet the annual 
expenditure. When this amount of five pounds has once been reached, 
members can either withdraw, or renew their membership and thereby 
incur a fresh liability. The average cost to members of the volumes already 
issued by the Association has been twenty-four shillings. Subscribers pay 
annually, on the Ist of July, twenty shillings, but incur no other liability ; 
in return for this they receive the rabete containing the “ Record of 
Zoological Literature” of the preceding year as soon as published. There 
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