THE NATURAL HISTORY REVIEW; 



PUBLISHED QUARTERLY. 



London : WILLIAMS AND NORGATE, 1(3, Henrietta-street, Covent Garden. 

 Each Number to contain from 80 to 100 pages, besides Woodcuts and Lithographs. Price 2s. Gd. 



Now that Natural History has become so fashionable, an endless troop of Natural 

 History publications issue from the press, some of sterling merit, some mere trashy com- 

 pilations, some full of erroneous information. The uninformed would-be purclia e: is afraid to 

 buy any, lest on perusal they should come under the last category: hence the great want 

 of an able and well-written Review, which will not only inform him of the works that 

 have been published on these subjects, but will also assure him of their worth or other- 

 wise. This long-left want the Natural History Review aspires to supply ; and though the 

 Editors are aware of many shortcomings in the Parts hitherto before the Public, yet they 

 have this definite aim before them, and as they gradually approximate to it more and more, 

 the utility of their undertaking will naturally be increased. 



THIS Periodical has been set on foot by a few well-known Naturalists, for the purpose of 

 advancing the cause of Natural History in Great Britain and Ireland, by making the 

 labours of their confreres more generally known, not only in Reviews of Works, but also 

 Papers read before Local Societies ; thus rendering it, as far as possible, a perfect Biblio- 

 graphical Record of the Progress of Natural History at Home and Abroad. 



To enable the Editors to carry out this design, the support and friendly co-operation of 

 Naturalists, Authors, and Publishers must be freely given. All Works on Natural History 

 sent to the Editors shall, in every instance, receive a notice ; but those not sent shall not be 

 entitled to have more than the contents of the title-page inserted an exception being made 

 in the case of very expensive Works. -fl 



The matter will appear under the following heads : 



I. REVIEWS OF WORKS on Natural History and Geology. These will be from the pens 

 of Naturalists eminent in special departments. The staff of writers at the present time 

 comprises some of our best known investigators. 



II. BIBLIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. Under this head will appear the Titles of Works not the 

 subject of a Review, and the contents of British and Foreign Serials, with interlinear remarks 

 on the value or interest of the principal papers. It is also intended, if the Review meets with 

 adequate support, to publish an Anuual Supplement to Agassiz and Strickland's " Biblio- 

 graphia Zoologiae et Geologias." 



III. REPORTS OF THE PROCEEDINGS OF SOCIETIES. It is very desirable that the Irish 

 Societies should extensively avail themselves of this opportunity, as many valuable com- 

 munications read before Provincial or small Meetings are annually lost to the world, or only 

 obtain local attention. 



IV. THE REVIEW OF THE QUARTER. This will contain Notices of Investigations in hand 

 requiring general co-operation, of the Travels, Obituary, &c., of Eminent Naturalists, and 

 other matters of General Scientific Interest. 



Vol. II., for 1855, has just been published, containing five Lithographic plates. Price, 

 10s. 6d., cloth gilt : to be had post free, by forwarding the amount in postage stamps to the 

 Editors, 5, Trinity College, Dublin. 



Vol. I., for 1854, price 8s, (Inj poxt\ is still on sale, and can be had by sending that amount 

 to the above address. Post-office Orders to be made payable to ARTHUR PERCIVAL, Esq., 

 5, Trinity College, Dublin. 



THE ENTOMOLOGISTS' ANNUAL FOR 1856. 



Trice 2s. 6d., with a Plate. 



CONTENTS. 



Advantages of the Study of Natural History. 



Pleasures of Entomology. 



List of British Entomologists. 



New British Insects in 1855 ; with Notices of the Capture of Species, previously rare. 



Results of a Residence HI Fochabers, 



Objects of a Collection of Insects. 



Ghent to Glogau, and Mcttin to Schaffhausen, in search of Entomologists. 



Important New Works on Entomology. 



List of Entomological Books now on Sale in London. 



London: JOHN VAN VOORST, 1, Paternoster-row. 



