Novitates Zoologicae. A Journal of Zoology in connection with the Tring Museum

Abstract

IT has long been the custom of some of the principal museums of natural history in all parts of the world to maintain a periodical devoted, more or less exclusively, to the publication of the discoveries made by the members of their staffs and based on the collections placed under their care. The long series of Annales du Musée and Archives du Musée issued by the naturalists of the great French museum in the Jardin des Plantes are well known to all workers in biology. The National Museum of Holland issues its Notes from the Leyden Museum with great regularity, and of not less importance to zoological science are the Annals of the Museo Civico of Genoa. On the other side of the Atlantic, we find the Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History at New York, and the similar publication of the National Museum of the U.S. at Washington, both mainly devoted to the work performed by the naturalists of those institutions, and in South America the Museums of Parà and S. Paulo issue corresponding publications. One advantage of this plan is that it helps to make the existence of the museum and its working staff more generally known, and another that it supplies a convenient medium for the exchange of publications with other similar institutions.

Novitates Zoologicae. A Journal of Zoology in connection with the Tring Museum.

Edited by the Hon. Walter Rothschild Ernst Hartert Dr. K. Jordan