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PLEISTOCENE. 
ABC Tellina balthica  . P ; : ; . Pelecypoda 
BC Pecten islandicus . 3 ‘ : ; : 5 
ABC Cyrena fluminalis . c : : ¢ 3 oe 
BC Astarte compressa . : } P , ‘ be 
Cc Unio littoralis ; : é : ‘ a 
BC Bythinia tentaculata . - : : . Gastropoda 
C Rhinoceros tichorhinus . : 5 : . Mammalia 
Cc Hippopotamus amphibius : : : : * 
ABC Elephas primigenius j ; ? A ‘ 3 
ABC Hyena crocuta F F : ; : 53 
BC Salix polaris ‘ ; : : : . Plante 
C Betula nana . . : . ; c ; % 
Zoological Bibliography and Publication.—Report of Committee 
(Prof. E. B. Poutron, Chairman; Dr. F. A. BaTuer, Secretary ; 
Mr. E. Heron-Atten, Dr. W. Evans Hoyir, Dr. P. CHaLMErs 
MitcHet, Mr. W. L. Scuater). 
T aE Committee deeply regrets the resignation, for reasons of health, of its highly valued 
member, Dr. W. E. Hoyle. 
During the past year the Secretary has been kept busy with correspondence on 
subjects dealt with in previous reports, and in replying to requests for copies of those 
reports. The advice of the Committee has been sought, and sometimes taken, by 
various editors. 
Among journals with which there has been such communication may be men- 
tioned The British Journal of Experimental Morphology, The Journal of Helmin- 
thology, Proceedings of the Geologists’ Association, Transactions of the Leeds Geological 
Association, Geological Magazine, and Annals and Magazine of Natural History; also 
the publications of the Royal Society of Medicine, of the Tropical Diseases Bureau, 
of the Raffles Museum, Singapore, of the Colombo Museum, and the Royal Society of 
West Australia. 
A letter on the meaning of ‘ publication’ appeared in The Times Literary Supple- 
ment for November 5, 1923. There was some correspondence in Nature of November 3 
and December 1 and 15, 1923, on the sizes of publications, arising out of a resolution 
by the Conference of Delegates. The last Report of the Committee has been reprinted 
in Revue Critique de Paléozoologie (X XVIII., pp. 50-52, June 1924). 
The question of sizes of periodical publications, referred to in the preceding para- 
graph, has also been raised in other quarters, notably by Mr. J. F. Pownall, who has 
submitted, to this Committee among other bodies, a number of proposals for the co- 
ordination of publication. A brief report on Mr. Pownall’s proposals was, by request 
of the President of the Association, furnished by the Secretary of the Committee. 
Mr. Pownall’s proposals may be summarised as follows :— 
1. That all scientific publications should be in a standard format. 
2. That all papers should commence on a fresh recto page. 
3. That all papers should have an index catch-word or words at their head. 
4, That memoranda, cuttings, etc., should be written or fixed on pages of the same 
standard size. 
5. That librarians, research workers, and others would thus be enabled to form 
libraries on their subjects. 
All these proposals are good, and many attempts to carry out Nos, 1, 2,3 have been 
made during the past forty years by editors familiar with the needs of the scientific 
worker. 
As regards format, the Committee ventures to differ somewhat both from Mr. 
Pownall’s suggestion No. 1 and from the resolution passed by the last Conference of 
Delegates. That resolution endorsed the recommendation of a previous Committee of 
this Association (Report for 1895, p. 77), namely, that the size should be demy octavo 
(approximately 9 x 52in. or 22-5 x 14-5cm.). This was then undoubtedly the usual size, 
and presumably had been found the most convenient. If it has been adopted by any 
Society, a change should not be made without careful consideration. 
It was, however, about the same time that the new methods of process-reproduction 
rendered it possible to illustrate scientific papers more freely than had been the case, 
and a larger size of page was soon found necessary for the half-tone blocks that became © 
