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to those, and above all to Mr. Gosse and Mr. Johns, 
who first opened people’s eyes to the wonders around 
them all day long. Now, we have, in addition to 
amusing books on special subjects, serials on Natural 
History more or less profound, and suited to every 
kind of student and every grade of knowledge. I 
mention the names of none. For first, they happily 
need no advertisement from me; and next, I fear to 
be unjust to any one of them by inadvertently omit- 
ting itsname. Let me add, that in the advertising 
columns of those serials, will be found notices of all 
the new manuals, and of all apparatus, and other 
matters, needed by amateur naturalists, and of many 
who are more than amateurs. Microscopy, mean- 
while, and the whole study of “The Wonders of the 
Little,’ have made vast strides in the last twenty 
years ; and I was equally surprised and pleased, to 
find, three years ago, in each of two towns of a 
few thousand inhabitants, perhaps a dozen good 
microscopes, all but hidden away from the public, 
worked by men who knew how to handle them, 
and who knew what they were looking at; but who 
