PREFACE. 
The Editors gladly avail themselves of the opportunity to 
publicly thank their many able contributors for the valuable 
papers sent in for publication during the present year. It 
has been a source of much pleasure to them to have had the 
privilege of publishing Mr. J. E. Bagnall’s “ Flora of War¬ 
wickshire,” the last instalment of which appears in the 
December number. This important work will no doubt be 
issued in a complete form before very long, and when it is it 
will be found to be largely added to, Mr. Bagnall having 
devoted all his leisure, since the publication began in the 
Magazine, to the further study and investigation of the 
Flora of his native county. 
The Editors would once more urge their readers to send 
for publication short notes on natural history topics embody¬ 
ing their personal observations. Communications of this 
kind would add materially to the value of the “ Midland 
Naturalist.” 
