IV PREFACE. 



In taking a purview of the general zoological incidents of 

 the year 1913, we have to deplore a heavy death-roll among our 

 prominent men. Dr. A. E. Wallace and Lord Avebury have 

 passed away, and their names constituted the last links with 

 that eminent band of workers and scientists who lived in the 

 latter half of the last century, men who not only discovered 

 facts, but formed and enunciated conclusions which are still 

 inseparable from present scientific thought, though of course 

 modified or enlarged by modern progress. Both also found 

 time to study social and economic questions. A great zoological 

 teacher has departed in the person of Prof. Adam Sedgwick; 

 while two very prominent ornithologists have left the ranks, 

 we allude to Dr. P. L. Sclater and Mr. Pt. J. Ussher. 



Among the principal publications of the year confined to 

 British Zoology, we must remember the Scotts' 'British Parasitic 

 Copepoda,' published by the Ray Society ; the completion of 

 Kirkman's ' British Bird Book ' ; the continuation of Barrett- 

 Hamilton's ' History of British Mammals' ; the ' Annual Export 

 on the Immigration of Summer Residents in the Spring of 

 1912,' still ably edited by W. R. Ogilvie Grant; and an important 

 book still awaiting notice in these pages, ' The Gannet,' by 

 J. H. Gurney. 



