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THIS publication seems to pursue the even tenor of its very useful way. The editor has to acknowledge grants of 250l. towards the expenses of the work from the British Association for the Advancement of Science, the Royal Society, and the Zoological Society of London. The “Record of the Arachnida for 1878” has been unavoidably postponed until vol. xvi., and Mr. Kirby has for the future undertaken all of the groups of the Insecta with the exception of the Coleoptera, which the editor will still review. Entomologists will perceive with regret that they thus lose the services of. Mr. McLachlan, who has reported on the Neuroptera and Orthoptera since 1869. A special committee has been appointed to endeavour to expedite the publication of the annual volume, and arrangements have been made, both as regards the contributors and printers, which it is hoped will have the eventual effect of bringing out the record of one year's work during the succeeding year. This would be an immense boon, and though it is obvious that it cannot be effected at the first attempt, still the editor confidently expects that the Record of 1879 will be published in the beginning of 1881, and let us hope that ere the end of that year we may also have the Record of that one now coming to a close.
The Zoological Record for 1878;
being vol. xv. of the Record of Zoological Literature, edited by E. C. Rye. (London: John Van Voorst, 1880.)
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The Zoological Record for 1878. Nature 23, 8 (1880). https://doi.org/10.1038/023008a0
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