﻿ANNIVERSARY 
  ADDRESS 
  OF 
  TnE 
  PRESIDENT. 
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  The 
  much 
  older 
  ' 
  Zoological 
  Record 
  ' 
  has 
  only 
  been 
  saved 
  from 
  

   coming 
  to 
  an 
  end 
  through 
  the 
  intervention 
  of 
  the 
  Zoological 
  Society 
  ; 
  

   and 
  if 
  the 
  funds 
  of 
  this 
  Society 
  would 
  allow, 
  there 
  are 
  few 
  purposes 
  

   to 
  which 
  they 
  could 
  be 
  applied 
  better 
  than 
  to 
  the 
  maintenance 
  of 
  a 
  

   Record 
  of 
  Geological 
  Literature. 
  

  

  The 
  unfortunate 
  failure 
  for 
  the 
  moment 
  of 
  Prof. 
  Xeumayr's 
  

   admirable 
  proposition 
  to 
  prepare 
  and 
  publish 
  a 
  new 
  ' 
  Nomenclator 
  

   Paheontologicus,' 
  and 
  the 
  tardy 
  appearance 
  of 
  the 
  ' 
  Geological 
  Record 
  ' 
  

   in 
  a 
  curtailed 
  form, 
  are 
  unwelcome 
  announcements. 
  It 
  is 
  satis- 
  

   factory, 
  therefore, 
  to 
  have 
  a 
  more 
  promising 
  event 
  to 
  chronicle. 
  

   The 
  appearance 
  of 
  the 
  first 
  volume 
  of 
  Mr. 
  Etheridge's 
  long 
  pro- 
  

   mised 
  'Fossils 
  of 
  the 
  British 
  Islands' 
  during 
  the 
  past 
  year 
  affords 
  

   an 
  important 
  contribution 
  to 
  works 
  of 
  the 
  class 
  to 
  which 
  the 
  two 
  

   above 
  named 
  belong. 
  If 
  Mr. 
  Etheridge's 
  work 
  is 
  as 
  exhaustive 
  as, 
  

   from 
  the 
  time 
  and 
  labour 
  spent 
  upon 
  it, 
  we 
  are 
  entitled 
  to 
  hope 
  

   that 
  it 
  will 
  prove, 
  it 
  will 
  be 
  a 
  most 
  valuable 
  aid 
  to 
  palaeontologists, 
  

   and 
  will 
  facilitate 
  the 
  preparation 
  of 
  that 
  general 
  list 
  of 
  all 
  

   described 
  fossils 
  which 
  is 
  at 
  present 
  one 
  of 
  the 
  greatest 
  desiderata 
  

   in 
  geological 
  science. 
  

  

  