ARACHNOLOGICAL HISTORY The Zoological Record Each Volume of the Zoological Record consists of 20 separate Sections,

The first of these is Comprehensive Zoology followed by sections recording a, year's literature relating to a Phylum or Class of the Animal Kingdom. The final section lists the new genera and sub-genera contained in each volume. Volume 113 for the year 1976 was published at the end of last year and Section 12 for the Arachnids, and Myriapoda runs to 305 pp. (size 295 mm x 210 mm.) in paper back format and is priced at £20.00. It is provided with an Author Index, Subject Index, Geographical Index, Palaeontological Index and a Systematic Index. For any arachnologists researching systematics, description and distribution of species, physiology, ecology, techniques, anatomy, evolution and behaviour, it is indispensable. It has not always been such a weighty volume, Vy first copy, forty years ago, was a mere booklet of 30 pp, priced at three shillings (15p) and perhaps one can be permitted a little pride, after 28 years, in being a Life Fellow of a Society which has made such progress even if ray own small contribution in the role of an amateur has been more enjoyable than remarkable