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THE birth of true biological science is of so recent origin, and its development has been so rapid that until lately many of the necessary steps in the furtherance of its proper progress have remained beyond the cognizance of its most enthusiastic followers. The difficulties connected with, and the unmanageableness of the large number of facts accumulated day by day on all branches of zoology, and recorded by observers in all parts of the civilised world, have until lately been scarcely realised. Only by those who, from the disappointment which they have experienced on finding that observations which have cost them incalculable time and labour, have been previously undertaken and exhausted by others before them, either in their own or some other country, appreciate fully the necessity for an easily accessible, accurate, and not over ponderous account of these labours of previous workers.
The Zoological Record for 1871.
Edited by Prof. Newton. (J. Van Voorst, 1873.)
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Our Book Shelf . Nature 8, 527 (1873). https://doi.org/10.1038/008527a0
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