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PREFACE. 
HE preparation of this Volume of the Zoological Record 
^ has been facilitated by the liberality of the Council of 
the Zoological Society, who granted an additional sum for 
assistance to the Recorders in searching the literature. This 
work was undertaken in chief part by Mr C. D. Sherborn ; 
and so far as works only in the libraries at Cambridge are 
concerned, by Mr S. Matthews of the Philosophical Library 
there. Thanks to their industry the Recorders have been 
able to complete the Volume within the usual period. 
Dr Calman being unable to execute the Arachnida and 
Myriapoda these groups have been most kmdly undertaken 
by Monsr. SiMON, and Prof. SiLVESTRi. As Prof MiNCHiN 
has been absent for the longer part of the year on a Govern- 
ment mission to Uganda, his Record of Spongiae has been in 
larger part accomplished by Mr Woodland. 
The list of abbreviations has been revised by the Librarians 
of the Royal Society, of the Natural History Museum, of the 
Science Library Victoria and Albert Museum, of the Zoological 
Society, of the Linnean Society, of the Radclifife Library, of the 
Philosophical Society Cambridge ; and our thanks are due to 
them for their assistance. 
D. SHARP. 
Cambridge. 
20^A November 1905. 
