PREFACE, 
THE Editors have again to thank their supporters and 
contributors for their active co-operation in promoting the 
welfare of ‘The Naturalist, and in making it worthy of 
its position as one of the oldest natural history journals. 
in the kingdom, dating back, as it does, to the year 1833. 
They are pleased to note yet again the active assistance 
of their Lincolnshire friends, and are glad to know that 
in the future, increased attention is to be paid to other 
counties—including Derbyshire and Sstiochamchire neither 
of which counties have of late years bulked so largely in 
scientific literature, compared with their neighbours, as. 
could be wished. 
The Editors would repeat the expression of their desire 
to receive more papers on geology, and upon biological. 
and general phenomena of animal and vegetable life, and. 
they trust that friends who desire to see such papers. 
inserted, will bear in mind that they will always have a 
favourable reception, provided they embody the results of 
original work and practical investigation. 
