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IN the preface to the “Record” for 1872 Prof. Newton, the editor, announced that having intimated to the Zoological Record Association his intention to resign his post, the Council had appointed Mr. Rye, Librarian to the Royal Geographical Society, as his successor. From a glance into the present volume it is evident that it is Mr. Rye's intention to maintain the high standard of his predecessors, notwithstanding the difficulties he has had to encounter, especially in the loss of the services of Dr. Günther, whose increased duties, now that he has been promoted to the post of Keeper of the Natural History Department of the British Museum, prevent him from undertaking the Mammalia, Reptilia, and Pisces, as he has done for years. Mr. Rye has succeeded in obtaining the services of Mr. E. R. Alston, F.Z.S, on the Mammals, and of Mr. A. W. E. O'shaughnessy on the Reptiles and Fishes; both which naturalists have most creditably performed their laborious tasks. Mr. R. B. Sharpe has undertaken the Birds as before, whilst Dr. Ed. von Martens, the Rev. O. Pickard-Cambridge, Mr. Rye, Mr. Kirby, Mr. McLachlan, and Dr. Lütken, have devoted themselves to their special subjects. The editor acknowledges the grant of 100l. from the British Association 50l. from the Zoological Society, and 100l. from the Government Grant Committee of the Royal Society (this being the first occasion that the Record Association has been so assisted), towards the expenses of publication. The increasing necessity for the production of the volume is yearly becoming more evident, at the same time that its contents are necessarily of such a nature that there can never be a demand for it which will enable it nearly to cover its expenses. The most important scientific results of the year include the investigations of Leidy, Marsh, and Cope on the fossil American Eocene Mammalia, and Prof. Marsh's discovery of a new sub-class of fossil toothed birds, respecting which all naturalists cannot but regret that so little opportunity is given them of seeing specimens or even drawings of the great number of species now known to them by short descriptions only.
The Zoological Record for 1873.
E. C.
Rye
Edited by (London: J. Van Voorst, 1875.)
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The Zoological Record for1873. Nature 12, 124 (1875). https://doi.org/10.1038/012124a0
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