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I WISH to ask my fellow zoologists, especially those on the continents of Europe and America, to be kind enough to send me, for our library here, separate copies of their papers and memoirs on zoological subjects. Here, in New Zealand, a naturalist is not only isolated, but has no efficient supply of current zoological literature; the nearest library containing modern periodicals being Sydney—a week's journey. The museum library in Dunedin, though well equipped in some respects (travels and older books), is extremely poorly provided with periodical literature. We take in the English journals and Proceedings of Societies, &c, but we do not purchase a single German periodical (with the exception of the Naples Mittheilungen and the Jahresberichte), and only one French journal, Annales des Sciences naturelles.
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BENHAM, W. A Request for Zoological Literature. Nature 58, 520 (1898). https://doi.org/10.1038/058520c0
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