IV PREFACE. 



well assume a larger feature of our pages. The ravages of 

 insects on crops and flowers are always problems to the farmer 

 and horticulturist, and we greatly want a Miss Ormerod among 

 our contributors. 



A general interest in British Zoology has been maintained, 

 from Mammals to Isopods ; and ' The Zoologist ' may still be 

 expected to fulfil its mission in authority, in the vanguard of 

 bionomical record, and as the journal for the field naturalist. 

 In the years to come it will probably inherit its full zoological 

 status, and then include in its purview Anthropology and 

 Paleontology. 



