9 Editorial Notes. 
during 1920, and it may be suggested that if each of our readers could 
obtain even one new subscriber the future of the Magazine would be 
assured. 
WE have received a copy of the Annual Return made by order of 
the Trustees of the British Museum, showing the work performed by 
_ the Staff of the various departments, the visits made by the public, 
and the objects acquired by purchase and donation during the year 
1919, with the income and expenditure for this great national 
institution, Bloomsbury, and its branch the Natural History 
Museum, Cromwell Road, South Kensington. The number of 
visitors to the Natural History collections during 1919 was 
455,736. 
Grouoaists will be glad to learn that the collection of fossil corals 
and brachiopods from the Carboniferous Limestone of Britain and 
Belgium, made by the late Dr. Arthur Vaughan, has been secured for 
the Geological Department of the Museum. Owing to the wide 
distribution of our armies during the War, and of scattered British 
subjects in foreign lands, numerous additions have been made to the 
foreign collections of the Geological Department. Vertebrate remains 
have been presented from Afghanistan, Salonika, Hgypt, the 
Sudan, Switzerland, Sinai, and California ; and invertebrate fossi!s 
and plants from New Zealand, Australia, Arabia, Peru, Hanover, 
Canada, India, Persia, Ypres (Flanders), Malta, Taranto (Italy), 
Jamaica, Sardinia, the United States, Colorado, Dalecarlia (Sweden), 
Central Arabia, Esthonia, Samara, Russia, and Manchuria. 
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A GREAT work of national importance carried on in the Geological 
Department is Mr. C. Davies Sherborn’s Index of the Genera and 
Species of Animals. During the past three years considerable progress 
has been made with this Index, under Mr. Sherborn’s charge, 
and some 90,000 references have been added to the manuscript. The: 
letter ““ T”’ of authors has now been reached. The manuscript has 
been continuously and extensively consulted by the staff and by 
students, whilst many inquiries have been answered by Mr. Sherborn 
in correspondence, which has been greatly increased owing to the 
many practical uses to which natural science is now applied, 
necessitating accurate nomenclature of the animals referred to. 
Further publication by Mr. Sherborn of bibliographic data has 
not been necessary during the past year; but a large draught has 
been made upon his manuscript by Mr. Gregory Mathews and 
Mr. Tom Iredale for their Birds of Australia and Mollusca of 
Australia. 
