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THE HONG KONG NATURALIST.

Four issues of the Hong Kong Naturalist will appear during the year.

SUBSCRIPTIONS.

Subscriptions are payable by crossed cheque, money order or note, and should be forwarded to Dr. G. A. C. Herklots, The University, Hong Kong, China. Subscription rates are:-Asia, $7.00 Hong Kong currency: Europe, Twelve shillings and six pence; America, $3.00 (gold); per annum, post free.

CONTRIBUTIONS.

Contributions on all subjects of Botanical, Zoological, Geological, and Historical interest connected with the Colony of Hong Kong, or with adjacent countries, will be considered by the Editors.

Manuscripts should be typed and corrected carefully and clearly before being submitted for publication. Authors should bear in mind the fact that the MSS. are set up by Chinese compositors to whom English is a foreign language and they are therefore asked to send clearly typed, double spaced, first copies, not carbon copies, of their articles.

Separates will be charged for at the printer's current price. The number required should be noted on the MS.

ILLUSTRATIONS.

Articles submitted for publication, especially those of a technical nature, should be adequately illustrated.

Wherever possible illustrations should be drawn on a large scale in Indian Ink on Bristol board so that they can be directly reproduced on a reduced scale on zinc blocks and appear as figures in the text. No wash must be introduced into such drawings, shading where required must be put in by means of separate dots or lines.

The size which drawings and photographs are to be reproduced should be indicated in the following manner. Under cach illustration or group of illustrations a line should be ruled in pencil parallel with the base of the illustration and extending from one side of it to the other. Under this line should be written in pencil, reduce to so many inches and tenths of an inch. The scale should be indicated under each illustration. If this method is universally adopted it will save the editor much work.

Photographs will be reproduced by the half tone process and will appear as plates. It is essential that the prints supplied should be of good technical quality; back and white prints on a paper with a highly glazed surface reproduce best. If drawings or photographs are supplied mounted on cardboard it is essential that each illustration be mounted flat and not stuck on carelessly.