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THE

HONG KONG NATURALIST

SUPPLEMENT

Number 1.

October, 1932.

EDITORIAL.

The Hong Kong Naturalist was founded in 1930 in the hope of fulfilling two aims. The first was that it should bring interesting facts to the notice of naturalists in Hong Kong and other parts of China. The second was that it might serve as a medium for the publication of scientific articles, dealing in the main with the classification of the animals and plants of China, and especially of S.E. China, so as to enable the keen student to identify his specimens. Our journal is now being widely distributed throughout the world in exchange for other publications, and we consider that the time has arrived at which our aims may be somewhat expanded in order to do justice to the great scope for research which the fauna and flora of Hong Kong, and its immediate neighbourhood, provide. We invite biologists, of other countries and continents, to place before those of us who are working in Asia, summaries and reviews of their investigations on the distribution and relationships of the Asiatic fauna and flora.

As expansion on these lines must entail the occasional publication of highly scientific commentaries, which may not hold as much interest for some of our subscribers as our less technical articles, we feel that it is essential to publish these commentaries in a separate Supplement. This Supplement will not be included in the subscription to the Naturalist and will not be distributed to our subscribers unless they particularly request it.

The pagi- nation of each Supplement will commence with page 1 thus avoiding con- fusion both with the Naturalist and other issues of the Supplement.

As this Supplement must of necessity be financed entirely from private sources, we ask our contributors to limit to a minimum the number of photographs illustrating their articles. As English is the lingua franca of scientists in the greater part of Asia we ask contributors to express their views in this language. Authors are asked to state on their MS. the number of separates they require, for these they will be charged the printer's current price.

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