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AS a general summary of the current zoological literature the “Zoological Record” maintains its high value. The volume for 1870 has lately appeared under the new editorship of Mr. Newton, and the arrangements now made for its further prosecution are very hopeful; yet I must again urge upon all our Fellows, who, as amateur zoologists or patrons of the science, have joined our ranks, to give their further support to the “Zoological Record” Association in order to secure the continuance of this annual summary for the sake of the working members, to whom it is so essential. I would also call attention to the sketch of the ornithological works recently published or in progress contained in the last number of the Ibis, an example which it were to be wished were regularly followed in all periodicals specially devoted to any branch of our sciences. The Reports on the contributions to the various branches of zoology inserted in Wiegmann's “Archiv” under the editorship of, and some of them compiled by, Troschel, replace in some measure the “Zoological Record” for the German public, and are kept up nearly to the same period, some of the reports for 1870 having already appeared; they are also much to be commended, although they may not have quite the method and completeness of the “Zoological Record.” I have further to congratulate science in general on the near completion of the Royal Society's great Catalogue of Scientific Papers, the sixth and last volume of which is far advanced, and likely to be in our hands by the commencement of the next session of the Society.
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Mr. Bentham's Anniversary Address to the Linnean Society* . Nature 6, 111–113 (1872). https://doi.org/10.1038/006111a0
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