THE
ZOOLOGICAL
RECORD
THE Zoological Record is published annually as a fat volume giving details of the zoological literature which has been published in the preceding year. The arrangement is systematic, so that each volume starts with sections on Comprehensive Zoology and Protozoa and goes on up through the evolutionary scale to finish with the sections on Birds and Mammals : in all there are twenty Sections. The Zoological Record is not just a list of the year's zoological literature. It is far more than that. Each section is arranged in three parts—an author index, a subject index and a systematic index. So the naturalist who wants to find the titles of all papers on birds by J. Smith published in 1958, goes straight to the author index. More likely he will want to know about the literature on nesting habits of a group, or some other biological subject. He can then go to the subject index and will find several references to the papers published in this field during the year. Or if he studies only one or more species of birds he should turn to the third section, where he will find all references for the year to Gallus, or Aquila or whatever group he is interested in. It is therefore an invaluable tool for amateur and professional alike to aid research in any group of animals. Every local library should have the complete volume for each year available for consultation by local naturalists. In addition, however, each section can be bought separately, so that every serious naturalist can have a complete index to the literature on his own group of animals at a cost of a few shillings a year. The wealth S.W.7. logical
Section on Insects can be obtained from the CommonInstitute of Entomology, 56 Queen's Gate, London, : all other Sections from the Scientific Director, the ZooSociety of London, Regent's Park, London, N.W.l.