PREFACE. 



Mr. Clarke's removal to Edinburgh unfortunately brings this state of 

 » things to a close ; and, for the next year's volume at any rate, the 

 dual control will give place to a new arrangement, whereby 

 Mr. Roebuck becomes general editor, with the assistance of 

 specialists in various departments of study. Mr. Clarke will con- 

 tinue to take charge of the vertebrate zoology ; botanical papers 

 will be submitted to Mr. J. Gilbert Baker, F.R.S., F.L.S., and 

 Mr. Chas. P. Hobkirk, F.L.S., a former editor; another former 

 editor, Mr. Geo. T. Porritt, F.L.S., F.E.S., will exercise oversight of 

 the entomological articles ; while those on geology will be submitted 

 to Mr. Alfred Harker, M.A., F.G.S. ; and on micro-zoology and 

 micro-botany to Mr. W. Barwell Turner, F.C.S., F.R.M.S. The mere 

 mention of these names will suffice to justify a confident expectation 

 that in the future The Naturalist wall be even more worthy of 

 support in the future than it has been in the past. 



