rReE PACE. 
THE Editors have again to thank their supporters—both 
contributors and subscribers—for their aid and co-operation 
in keeping up the standard of the journal. 
The increase in the size of the index is evidence of 
a corresponding and gratifying increase in the number of 
short notes published, always a valuable feature, and the 
balance of subjects has been more equitable than in some 
previous years, there not having been an undue _pre- 
ponderance of any one subject. 
The Editors would, however, draw the attention of 
their geological and biological friends to the fact that 
those subjects have not this year been so well represented 
as could be wished. 
Many readers express a desire to see more papers dealing 
with biology and life-history, and the Editors will gladly use 
them if their biological friends will contribute of their stores 
of information, and thereby assist them in their wish to do 
ample justice to all sides of the subjects embraced in the 
scope of the Naturalist. 
Special attention has been devoted to Lincolnshire 
a comparatively unworked county, and it is hoped that the 
publication of the sketch-map of the soils and natural history 
divisions of that important and productive portion of the 
kingdom will prove a stimulus to the detailed working out 
of its fauna and flora. 
It was found necessary to transpose the second sheets of 
the September and November numbers, but a re-transposition 
of them by the binder will set the pagination right. Mean- 
while it should be borne in mind that pp. 273-288, dated 
September, were actually issued in November, and pp. 313- 
328, dated November, were issued in September. 
