288 CURRENT NOTES AND MEMORANDA. 



Exeter ; 4th August, 1885. 



To the Editor of the Journal of Microscopy and Natural Science. 



Dear Sir, — 



Replying to your invitation on p. 214 of your invaluable 

 Journal for the current quarter to subscribers, to drop you a line in re the 

 " Lett-Worsley-Benison " question, I have much pleasure in saying that I 

 think your idea of a " Monthly Supplement " a capital compromise between 

 the suggestions of these two gentlemen, and likely, if acted on, to provide 

 many like myself with what I find to be a great desideratum — a somewhere to 

 go with my questions, technical and otherwise ; questions which I am sure 

 would be freely answered by many subscribers when the projected medium of 

 communication is established. 



I feel certain also that a series of papers devoted to common objects, where 

 to find, how to view to best advantage, and how to permanently prepare them, 

 would be of inestimable value. 



I am, etc., F. R. Brokenshire. 



Current 1Rotc6 anb flDcmoranba. 



Important Notice.— We beg to announce that in addition to 



the Journal of Microscopy and Natural Science, we shall, on January 1st, 1 886, 

 publish Part I. of The Scientific Enquirer. Its chief aim will be to 

 furnish information on all matters of scientific interest, and will embrace the 

 following : — 



I. — Questions on all subjects relating to any branch of Natural Science. 



2. — Answers to the same by subscribers. 



3. — Contributions on points of interest in any locality — e.g., occurrences of 

 certain plants and insects, and notes on observed habits, etc. 



4. — Extracts from recent Foreign Journals. 

 5. — Letters to the Editor. 

 6. — Answers to Correspondents. 



7. — An Exchange Column, free ; and a Sale Column, for the use of which a 

 nominal charge will be made. 



The Scientific Enquirer will be published monthly, price 4d. Messrs. 

 Bailliere, Tindall, and Cox will be our London agents. 



We shall be glad to receive contributions for each of the 

 departments of The Scientific Enquirer as early as possible. They should 

 be written on sepai-ate pieces of paper (a half-sheet of note will be a con- 

 venient size), and numbered ; so that in case too many be received for 

 the first issue, the early numbers of each will be chosen. Every contribution 

 must bear the name and address of the writer (not necessarily for publication). 



We have received promises of many valuable and most inter- 

 esting papers for our fifth volume. 



Mr. A. C. Coles' Studies in Microscopical Science, accom- 

 panied by slides of the usual degree of excellence, arrive monthly with great 

 punctuality. We have not this time space to enumerate the various specimens; 

 suffice it to say that slides and notes are fully up to the standard. 



