Eoolagmt! Jtmri 
(Founded 11 January, 1871), 
Extract from the Rules adopted at the General Meeting 
held 16 March , 1871. 
“ 1. This Association shall be called the Zoological 
Record Association, and its object shall be to continue the 
publication of the 4 Record of Zoological Literature.’ 
“ 2. The Association shall consist of Members and Sub¬ 
scribers. 
“ 3. Members are entitled to receive a copy of the Annual 
Volume, and are liable to the extent of £5, in the event of the 
funds from all other sources not being equal to meet the Annual 
Expenditure. When this amount of £5 has once been reached, 
Members can either withdraw or renew their Membership, and 
thereby incur a fresh liability. 
“ 4. Subscribers shall pay annually on the 1st of July 
Twenty shillings, but incur no other liability; in return for 
this they receive the Volume containing the Record of Zoolo¬ 
gical Literature of the preceding year as soon as it is published. 
“ 5. The publishing price of each Volume shall be fixed by 
the Council of the Association, and that of the first volume 
shall not be less than Thirty Shillings.” 
Those unacquainted with the “Record of Zoological 
Literature” are informed that it was commenced in the year 
1865, since which time Ten annual Volumes have been pub¬ 
lished, each containing a very full abstract of, and a very 
complete index to, the Zoological Literature of the preceding 
year. 
The publisher being unwilling, after the first Six Volumes 
had appeared, to continue an undertaking which, though 
