PREFACE. 
Owing to the punctuality of the various Recorders and the 
promptness of the printers, the thirty-fourth volume of the 
Zoological Record appears as early as any of its predecessors. 
Mr R. T. Giinther left England at a period of the year so 
early that only a very incomplete Record of Coelenterata could 
then have been prepared ; he therefore preferred that this 
subject should be altogether omitted ; but he hopes to be able 
to furnish a Record of its progress in 1897 and 1898 in our 
next volume. 
D. SHARR 
Cambridge, 
August 2Qth, 1898. 
