IV 
PllEFACE, 
The Editor and Contributors of the ‘ Record ^ feel much gra- 
tified at the interest with which the question of its continuance 
was taken up by the Biological Section of the British Association, 
whereby a grant of ^100 was obtained from the Association for 
this volume as well as the following. This, together with a 
similar sacrifice on the part of the Contributors, has ensured the 
continuation of the ^ Record but it is to be hoped that by the 
arrangement of issuing the volume in three parts, the under- 
taking will now be self-supportiiig. 
ALBERT GUNTHER. 
London, November 1868. 
[Communications, papers, and memoirs intended for this work should 
be addressed solely to '‘The Editor of the Zoological Record, care of Mr. 
Van Voorst, 1 Paternoster Row, London.” All publications sent will be 
distributed among the several Recorders.] 
