THE NATURALIST 



Labor Omnia Vincit." 



ADDRESS. 



At tlie commencement of our career it is perhaps necessary to make 

 our readers acquainted with the reasons which have induced us to embark 

 in a boat which has twice suffered shipwreck ; to do this no lengthened 

 address is necessary. 



The demise of the " Weekly Entomologist " left a gap in Entomo- 

 logical literature which was keenly felt by the working student in that 

 science ; the facilities for making exchanges which were afforded through 

 the columns of that periodical, as well as of its predecessor the '' Entomo- 

 logists' Intelligencer " brought collectors into correspondence with each 

 other, and their collections were at once enriched with s|)ecies which 

 would have taken years to obtain had no such means of communication 

 existed. The capture of a rare species was at once made known, and a 

 love for inter-communication among Entomologists, and especially among 

 the young students of that science, was fostered and encouraged. 



Although the two former Entomological periodicals failed through 

 lack of sympathy and encouragement on the part of those who ought to 

 have been contributors to their pages, there is reason to believe that a 

 Magazine conducted on similar principles, but on the more extended 

 basis of Natural History in the widest signification of the term, containing 

 papers and observations in Botany, Zoology, and PalEeontology, instead of 

 confining itself to Entomology, and affording facilities for effecting ex- 

 changes of specimens in all those departments of Natural Science, would 

 have a much better chance of success ; and it is in order to put this to the 

 test that " The Naturalist " has been projected. 



The rise and progress of " Naturalist Societies " also increase the 



hope which the projectors of this Magazine have of its success. There is 



scarcely a town in the kingdom, and in the North of England scarcely a 



village, in which some such society, either " Botanical," or " Entomoio- 



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