ADVERTISEMENT. 



The Second Volume of the Annals of Natural History 

 being now completed, the Editors have the satisfaction 

 of being enabled to state, after the experience of a year, 

 that the support which their Journal has received from the 

 public is at the least sufficient to give the full assurance 

 of its permanent establishment. That which above all af- 

 fords them the greatest encouragement is the quality and 

 quantity of the contributions with which they have been 

 supplied by valuable correspondents diligently employed 

 in the observation of Nature. Thus aided, they are gra- 

 tified at finding that their labours have begun to engage 

 attention, not only in their own, but also in other coun- 

 tries. Already have some of the contents of this Journal 

 been deemed worthy of being transferred into the pages 

 of the Annales d'Histoire Naturelle ; whilst expressions 

 of approbation and encouragement in the journals and 

 correspondence of their contemporaries of Germany, 

 Belgium, and the United States lead to the expectation 

 that it will be increasingly useful as an established and 



