IV PREFACE. 



might come in contact as correspondents to ' The Zoologist,' 

 and thus make the Journal still more recognized as the record 

 for zoological observations. 



If last year was " an Okapia year," the principal zoological 

 revelation of 1902 has also appertained to the Mammalia. We 

 refer to the palaeontological discoveries made by Dr. C. W. 

 Andrews in a Pliocene deposit on the Wadi-Natrun, Egypt. The 

 specimens found are the first evidence of the actual inhabitants 

 of an early tertiary Ethiopian continent, the existence of which, 

 though suspected on various grounds, had never been proved- 

 Already this discovery has cleared up several important questions 

 of geographical distribution, and has also shown definitely the 

 point of origin of the Proboscidea and some other groups. Palae- 

 ontology is not solely a section of Geology, as is too frequently 

 held ; it cannot be divorced from Zoology. Palaeontology is 

 Zoology studied by the light of Geology, and thus comes within 

 the scope and purpose of this Journal. 



