PREFACE. 
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ing the characters of each division. The expenses of so large 
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Voorst has supported this undertaking, the Editor cannot abs- 
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of the President of the Linnean Society in his Anniversary 
Address, 1866 : — " I would particularly call your attention to 
the ‘ Record of Zoological Literature.^ Not only is it earnestly 
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continuance, but it is to be hoped that a similar compilation 
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ALBERT GUNTHER. 
London, August 1866. 
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