PREFACE. 



this account, from time to time, we have included new subjects of 

 research and study. 



Next year we propose devoting a special department to PHOTO- 

 GRAPHY. That charming branch of amateur and holiday science is 

 capable of much good service in the cause of natural history. 

 Photo-micrography is already an adjunct of microscopical research ; 

 and its splendid adaptation to the lantern for lecturing purposes is 

 admitted by all who have taken advantage of it. Photography has 

 many a little side path unentered. If it only gave artists real 

 studies of plants for use in their foregrounds, rocks and trees for 

 their landscapes, and clouds for their skies, and thus abolished the 

 conventional kinds hitherto in use — it would be a great gain to Art. 

 We therefore cordially invite our readers to assist us in forming and 

 carrying on each month a Department devoted to Photography, 

 especially so far as the latter affects Natural Science. 



It is cheering to the Editor to receive from time to time the 

 kindly encouragement and congratulations of contributors and sub- 

 scribers. He asks all his allies to assist in making SciENCE-GossiP 

 known among their friends. An increased circulation means increased 

 efficiency. He is grateful for the kindly sympathy and help of the 

 past year. The conduction of the journal brings him into contact 

 with troops of friends, to each of whom he appeals for increased 

 assistance. 



Perhaps the best evidence of the bibliographical value of SciENCE- 

 GOSSIP is the fact that many of the back numbers of years ago are 

 asked for at double the price they were published. 



