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FROM rough calculations lately made by the contributors to the Zoological Record, it would appear that some 360,000 species of animals have been described by naturalists up to the present date. To arrange all these species on a uniform system, and to add descriptions and other necessary particulars to each of them, would appear to be almost an herculean task. Yet it has been undertaken, we are told, by the German Zoological Society, which has entered into an agreement with Messrs. Friedländer and Son for the publication of such a work. Prof. F. E. Schultze, of Berlin, has been selected as general editor of “Das Tierreich,” and will be assisted by numerous sub-editors in the different departments of zoology. Each of these sub-editors again will invite the assistance of specialists in the groups assigned to his charge, so that a very large number of naturalists will assist in this gigantic undertaking. It is proposed to issue the first parts of the work in 1897, and it is expected that at least twenty-five years will elapse before the undertaking can be brought to a conclusion.
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A New Synopsis Animalium—Das Tierreich. Nature 53, 541–542 (1896). https://doi.org/10.1038/053541a0
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