The Zoological Record

Abstract

THE thirty-second volume of the Zoological Record, containing an account of the oological literature of 1895, was issued shortly before the close of last year, with its customary and most praiseworthy regularity. It is edited for the Zoological Society of London, whose property the Record is, and at whose expense it is carried on, by Dr. David Sharp, F.R.S., the Curator in Zoology of the Cambridge University Museum, with the assistance of fourteen other naturalists in different departments of the subject. The volume is rather thicker than those which have preceded it. In the first place, as the editor apologetically explains, this is in consequence of the literature of two years, in the case of four out of the eighteen departments left in arrear last year, being included in the present volume. But the amount of zoological work performed every year also increases as science progresses. More volumes and more papers are published, and new scientific periodicals are continually being started. All these contribute to the annual increase in size of the Zoological Record. To form an idea of the number of periodicals which the much harassed recorder has now to consult, it is only necessary to cast one's eye over the alphabetical list of the abbreviations of their titles, which the general editor has prepared and printed in the present volume. Each of these abbreviations is accompanied by the full title of the periodical, the place of its publication, and the most accessible libraries in London and Cambridge in which a copy of it is to be found. This list occupies fifty-four closely printed pages in the present volume, and numerous additions are made to it every year.