P U E r A C E. 
In this (sixth) Volume of the ' Record ’ the Editor has ad- 
hered to the plan which was followed in the preceding volumes. 
There is, however, a change in one section. Mr. Dallas being 
prevented, by the duties resulting from his recent appointment 
to the Secretaryship of the Geological Society, from under- 
taking the laborious task of preparing the whole of the Entomo- 
logical Record, Messrs. Kirby, MacLachlan, Marshall, and Rye 
consented to relieve him of certain parts of it. 
Zoologists have to thank the British Association for another 
grant of jglOO toward the expenses of the preparation of this 
volume, the contributors having again made a sacrifice similar 
to that of the two preceding years. 
The present Editor^s duties cease with this volume ; con- 
sidering his fellow-labourers entitled to the honour of the post 
as well as to a share in its cares and responsibilities, he would 
have resigned the Editorship at the end of the fifth year, if 
Professor Newton, his first associate in the work, had then been 
ready to succeed him. To his successor, therefore, he must 
leave it to state, with the commencenlent of the seventh volume, 
what arrangements have been made to ensure the continuation 
of the ^ Record * in the form in which it has hitherto appeared ; 
but he cannot conclude these remarks without expressing his 
gratification at the readiness with which British zoologists have 
joined in support of the work, proving that he was not mistaken 
as regards its necessity and usefulness. 
ALBERT GUNTHER. 
