iv PREFACE. 
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maintain the distinguished position it has from the first assumed 
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Association for the Advancement of Science, and of a contribu- 
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the Council of the Zoological Society of London. I have again 
to return my thanks to the Subeditor and the various Recorders 
— among whom I have been so fortunate as to enlist Dr. 
LuTKEN — for their kind and invaluable cooperation. It will 
always be a satisfaction to me that I have had the honour of 
conducting, now for the space of three years_, a publication so 
useful and (thanks entirely to my fellow-labourers) so ably 
executed as the Zoological Record. 
ALFRED NEWTON. 
Magdalene College, Cambridge, 
April, 1874. 
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