80 THE ZOOLOGIST. 
Wirx the new year several noteworthy changes have ensued 
in the editorial management of some of our best-known Be 
lications :— 
Dr. J. A. Allen, finding that his health demanded relief from 
some of his numerous responsibilities, has been forced to resign 
the editorship of the ‘ Auk,’ and the Council of the American 
Ornithologists’ Union have chosen Mr. Witmer Stone as his 
successor. Simultaneous with Dr. Allen’s retirement, Mr. Frank 
M. Chapman resigned as Associate Editor. Dr. Allen has 
guided with conspicuous ability the course of the ‘Bulletin’ of 
the Nuttall Ornithological Club, and its successor the ‘ Auk,’ 
through thirty-six volumes, a record for which he may justly 
feel a scientific pride, and for which all ornithologists will offer 
him their sincere congratulations. 
The ‘ Annals of Scottish Natural History,’ the old quarterly 
issue with which we are all so well acquainted, and has reached 
its twentieth volume, now appears as a monthly journal under 
the name of ‘The Scottish Naturalist,’ and no longer includes 
botany, but is entirely devoted to zoology. Mr. Harvie-Brown 
retires from the position of a principal Editor, but still assists 
the editorial triumvirate, which consists of Mr. William Hagle 
Clarke, Mr. William Evans, and Mr. Percy H. Grimshaw, with the 
assistance of other well-known naturalists. The new publishers 
are Oliver & Boyd (Edinburgh), and their branch, Gurney & 
Jackson (London). 
The first part of ‘The Austral Avian Record,’ edited by Mr. 
Gregory M. Matthews, has appeared, published by Witherby & 
Co. (London), and “‘issued in connection with the Austral Avian 
Museum, Watford, Herts, England.” It is to be published at 
irregular intervals, and will contain such notes as the Editor 
deems necessary to require immediate attention, and referring 
to birds which either have been already treated of in his ‘Birds 
of Australia,’ or will not be dealt with in the immediate future. 
