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efiilorial (gossip. 



The present number completes Vol. III. The Index 

 and Titlepage will shortly be published,— separately, 

 because it is not tli..ui.'lit Just to fonc those wl.o read but 



Ac nuou, midsummer. 



do not keep Ivnowledge to pay for an index which is of 

 no use to them. The plan involves some loss to the pro- 

 prietors, but it is followed as the fairest. 



Ori';in"ally it had been Intended to have but a single 

 volume for each year, but it was pointed out that such 

 volumes would be cumbrous, especially when the growth 



Db. WiLsox's papers on "Our Bodies " being concluded, 

 he has promised a series on our remote kinsfolk, the more 

 or less u.anlike monkeys. These will shortly, we trust, be 

 commenced. The valuable papers on the Moon, by 

 F.K.A.S., commenced in Vol. 111., will be contmued in 

 Vol IV. They are likely, we trust, to form for a long 

 time a feature of Knowleuoe. (Some correspondents pay 

 us the high compliment of identifying F.R.A.8. with Mr. 

 R. A. Proctor, who is a fellow of the same society, but is 

 not'the writer of those interesting papers, nor of anything 

 ^^hich luvs appeared over the signature F.K. A. S., here or 

 elsewhere.) A series of papers sketching Mr. Herbert 

 Spencer's "Philosophy of Society" will shortly be com- 

 menced by Mr. Thos. Fost*^^r. Mr. Grant Allen will con- 

 tinue his interesting series, " A >«'aturalist's Year ; Mr. 

 H J. Slack his valuable " Hours with the Micrcosope ; 

 Mr W Mattieu Williams the useful series now in progress. 

 Messrs. Slingo and J ago will supply papers on electrical 

 and chemical subjects, the latter dealing specially with the 

 chemistry of common life. The articles on " How to get 

 Stron--'"will iminediatelv be renin, pH. The " Sun \ lews 



Fig. 4. At six in the morning, midsummer. 



of our circulation rendered possible an increase in the size 

 of each monthly part. But readers should remember that 

 the promises made for Vol. III. related to what will in 

 reality be Vols. 111. and IV. 



of the Earth " will be;{continued, and a series of papers on 

 the Spectroscope be presently commenced by the Editor. 

 Chess will continue to be^conducted by Mephisto, W hist 

 by " Five of Clubs." 



Readers of Knowledge will, we trust, hear with plea- 

 sure that our circulation has been steadily increasing, and 

 promises to increase at an increasing rate. We heartily 

 thank those who, by securing new subscribers, have helped 

 this progress. So many have written to us that they have 

 done so,"that we have not had space or time to thank them 

 individually. But we are none the less sensible of their 

 good-will. 



The race of grumblers, by-the-way, seems to have died 

 out As we really have been doing our utmost to make 

 Knowledge worthy of the welcome given to it, this is as 

 it should be. 



1 RATHER wonder no one has called my attention to the 

 way HI which, in the gossip about printers' ;commas, the 



