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 pertains 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 



