



HE second title of our Journal, The Journal of 

 Natural Science, has given to it an extended scope, 

 of which we have availed ourselves, and by so 

 doing we think that the interest in the Journal has 

 been much increased. It is not easy in so many 

 good papers to specify any particular one, but we 

 would direct attention to " The Rambles of a 

 Naturalist," by Miss Charlesworth ; "What is a Plant?" and 

 " How Plants Grow," by Mr. H. W. S. Worsley-Benison. Papers 

 like these could not have found a place in this Journal had it 

 been confined to Microscopy alone. While the paper on "The 

 Microscope and how to use it," by Miss Latham, still maintains a 

 claim to its first title. This last, we may observe, is the com- 

 mencement of a series of papers from the same pen, which we 

 hope to continue. 



Another special feature introduced in the present volume has 

 been the more extended Reviews of New Books relating to every 

 branch of Natural Science. In writing these notices, which have 

 in most cases been undertaken by specialists in the various 

 departments of science, our object has been not so much to give 

 a critical review of each book, as to place before our readers as 

 briefly as possible such a description of the work under notice as 

 will at once enable them to decide whether it is worth their 

 purchase. These notices, although voluminous, have not taken 



