4 ADDRESS. 
or two for Notes and Queries, to afford an opportunity to all who desire it, 
of asking for, and receiving-information. All notices of the appearances of 
migratory birds, and hybernating animals, of the occurrence of rare and un- 
common plants, will be thankfully received and inserted ; we hope to make 
the work a reliable natural history of the neighbourhood, and to this end we 
ask all and everybody to contribute their quota, remembering that nothing 
is too trivial to notice, there is no telling what missing link in the chain it 
may prove to be: all that is necessary is a plain, truthful manner of telling 
it, omitting all romance, and never allowing imagination to supply the place 
of fact. For the science is peculiarly an inductive one; conclusions must 
not be drawn from one or two observations; if they are, we shall in all 
probability have to cancel them; patience and personal observation, however, 
will prevent this. i 
Should the Magazine meet with a favourable reception, we hope to issue 
it oftener than its present title would imply, and also to increase its size: 
for the present we must leave it to stand or fall on its own merits. 
