PROSPECTUS 



In undertaking the Annals of Natural History, the 

 Editors are desirous of making them not merely a vehicle for 

 original communications pertaining to the entire subject of 

 Natural History, but a means of enabling their readers to keep 

 pace with the progress of the science in every stage of its ad- 

 vancement. 



Memoirs on Descriptive Zoology ; Monographs ; charac- 

 ters of new Genera and Species ; notices of the habits, in- 

 stinctive faculties, and geographical range of animals already 

 known ; — as also Zootomical communications, in so far as they 

 serve to correct or confirm the systematical station of species 

 or entire groups, will occupy a due share of this Journal. 



With regard to the Vegetable Kingdom, besides the space 

 which will be devoted to Monographs and to Descriptive Bo- 

 tany, attention will also be given to Vegetable Physiology and 

 Phytotomy. To all Naturalists, even to those who do not 

 make Botany their peculiar study, these subjects must be in- 

 teresting, and indeed indispensable for the acquirement of a 

 general proficiency in Natural History. A portion of our 

 pages, therefore, will be especially devoted to them, as well 

 as to all that pertain* to the accurate characters of Families, 

 their geographical' range, their uses in the arts, and in medi- 

 cine. 



The investigation of Fossil Organic Remains stands in such 

 intimate connection with Zoology and Botany, that the claim 



