IV 
PREFACE. 
lienee little practical advantage would result from substituting five 
or six separate Records for the present “Vermes.” We therefore 
prefer to postpone making any change until Zoologists are 
thoroughly agreed as to the limits and value of the various divi- 
sions into which Vermes will doubtless ultimately fall. To maintain 
separate Records for such groups as Mesozoa , for which last year a 
dozen lines only were required and this year none at all, does not 
appear necessary. 
D. SHARP. 
Cambridge, Sept. 8, 1896. 
