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EDITORIAL GLEANINGS. 
THE welcome appearance of the ‘ Zoological Record’ for 1896 took 
place last November. The only missing contribution is that on the 
Hchinodermata, which is promised in combination with that of 1897, in 
the next volume. We may form some estimate of the zoological activity 
displayed in the year 1896 by an enumeration of the “ titles” of separate 
communications, papers, or memoirs dealing with the different branches of 
Zoology. 
DNGOMAATIA Sc oc0seccesccccesecs 291 CTUBUACED a cdsaseisaciee doe vsasis 206 
ERUMEEERE Teo nsiicecercocscesse GOD ATAGHIVGG: co lacscossenceseedsax 114 
Reptilia and Batrachia ...... 307 | Myriopoda & Prototracheata 56 
BME oes bssidile coe'secees QAO 4): Msettay ethedeGueretlecens seas 1264 
UGCA) os. cca cceccscsscecass 30 VeriMed) sivsteeewkse varsareeedes 251 
PROC W aoe nncc.csceneccecse's 39] Coplenteratia. ..:.05.s2reeceesee 122 
PACMOPOOA, 5.2000... 2.000008 ZO 1 POU BIS: . ccs aac vew sven avewss 57 
ME VIGO go, uiidieeecccaesleeeces Q1 PerotoZoaiy; ae.sice saadiegetaees 190 
As usual the Insecta have attracted the largest number of workers, and it 
appears by a computation made by Dr. Sharp, the Editor, that no fewer 
than 8907 species and 1040 genera and subgenera have been described as 
new by entomologists. 
The above enumeration provokes one other reflection, and that is—what 
a number of different groups of living creatures are at present neglected in 
these pages. 
Wiru the December number of the ‘ Annals and Magazine of Natural 
History,’ Dr. William Francis resigns the responsible editorship to his son. 
For sixty years from the time of its inception Dr. Francis has been con- 
nected with this well-known and valued Natural History Magazine, of which 
120 volumes have now appeared. Since 1859 he has acted in an editorial 
capacity. This is an unique record, and thanks for the past and best wishes 
for the future, from many sources, will follow both Dr. Francis in his retire- 
ment and his son in the editorial chair. | 
Mr. H. M. Evans has written, and Messrs. W. Brendon & Son, of 
Plymouth, published, a ‘ Comparative Status of Birds found in the British 
Isles and in the County of Devonshire, with the Habitat and Range of each 
