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each committee, and these should be printed in the Proceedings. The 
value of the Proceedings will be thus enhanced and a more general 
interest will be awakened among scientific men in the work of their 
Association. 
To carry on the enlarged work of the Association, additional funds 
will have to be acquired. The plan adopted by the British Associ- 
ation, of making visitors and ladies accompanying members pay 
for the privileges of the meetings, seems to us in every way admira- 
ble. The income of the British Association in 1897 was £580 from 
annual assessments, but £2242 from non-members. Thus the non- 
scientific contributed to the support of science. Finally, to increase 
the membership of the Association, a systematic canvas should be 
made of the scientific societies of the country, to the ends that their 
quality may be determined ; that we may accept, as it were, “on cer- 
tificate” and without special election, any member of a suitable 
society ; and that these societies may be led to coöperate with the 
national association in promoting the interests of science in the land. 
Zoological Bibliography. — The second report of the committee 
of the Royal Society upon Zoological Bibliography and Publication 
has been issued. It contains the following suggestions: 
(1) That each part of a serial publication should have the date of 
actual publication, as near as may be, printed on the wrapper, and, 
when possible, on the last sheet sent to press. 
(2) That authors’ separate copies should not be distributed pri- 
vately, before the paper has been published in the regular manner. 
(3) That authors’ separate copies should be issued with the origi- 
nal pagination, and plate numbers clearly indicated on each page 
and plate, and with a reference to the original place of publication. 
(4) That it is desirable to express the subject of one’s paper in 
its title, while keeping the title as concise as possible. 
(5) That new species should be properly diagnosed, and figured 
where possible. 
(6) That new names should not be proposed in irrelevant footnotes 
or anonymous paragraphs, 
(7) That references to previous publications should be made fully 
and correctly, if possible, in accordance with one of the recognized 
sets of rules for quotation, such as that recently adopted by the 
French Zoological Society. 
With all of which the American Naturalist is in the closest sympathy. 
A few comments, however, may be of interest. The second of the 
