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Show (Founded 11 January, 1871). Extract from the Rules adopted at the General Meeting held 16 March, 1871. " 1. This Association shall be called the ZOOLOGICAL R E C O R D ASSOCIATION, and its object shall be to continue the publication of the ' Record of Zoological Literature.' " 2. The Association shall consist of Members and Subscribers. " 3. Members are entitled to receive a copy of the Annual Volume, and are liable to the extent of £5, in the event of the funds from all other sources not being equal to meet the Annual Expenditure. When this amount of £5 has once been reached, Members can either withdraw or renew their Membership, and thereby incur a fresh liability. " 4 . Subscribers shall pay annually on the 1st of July Twenty shillings, but incur no other liability; in return for this they receive the Volume containing the Record of Zoological Literature of the preceding year as soon as it is published. " 5. The publishing price of each Volume shall be fixed by the Council of the Association, and that of the first volume shall not be less than Thirty Shillings." Those unacquainted with the " R E C O R D OF ZOOLOGICAL L I T E R A T U R E " are informed that it was commenced in the year 1865, since which time Eleven annual Volumes have been published, each containing a very full abstract of, and a very complete index to, the Zoological Literature of the preceding year. The publisher being unwilling, after the first Six Volumes had appeared, to continue an undertaking which, thouo-h |
