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and a baronet were added to its list of patrons. But the 

 'Society' proper, that is the working members, were still 

 the ' junior ' naturalists, and still carried on its work in the 

 same junior way. But it must begin to publish a quarterly 

 magazine, quite regardless of the question of L. S. D., or of 

 the question of the contributions being regularly forthcoming. 

 So we find that somewhere about April last (possibly April ist) , 

 appeared Vol. I., No. i of the Journal of Natural Science and 

 Photographic and Philatelic News, published quarterly. 

 The words ' Natural Science ' were in a very large type, and, 

 being printed on Silurian paper was, at first, remindful of the 

 ' Natural Science ' of the good old days. But there the sem- 

 blance ended. On the first page we again find reference to the 

 Journal of Natural Science Photograpic (sic) and Philatelic 

 Notes. The ' Photograpic ' notes were confined to one page, 

 and did not refer to photography, and the ' Philatelic Notes ' 

 were evidently crowded out, as they could not be found. 



WHAT SHOULD NOT BE IN A JOURNAL. 



The ' editorial staff ' was strengthened, and we turned to 

 the magagine itself, naturally expecting it to be a model. But 

 it is a long time since we saw anything worse. In the two parts 

 before us (yes, there have been two I) about every style of type 

 seems to have been used. On one page no fewer than nine 

 different founts occur, and each paragraph is set up in a different 

 faced type ! There are mis-prints and wrong letters galore, 

 spacing is faulty ; the blocks are not printed on suitable paper, 

 and advertisements are printed on the back of the ordinary 

 matter, so that they cannot be removed in binding. In fact, 

 if one wished to find within the pages of one small pamphlet 

 all the things there should not be, this journal of ' Natural 

 Science ' is ' it.' 



THE CONTRIBUTIONS. 



These are as varied in quality as in title. Unfortunately, 

 there are one or two valuable items amongst them, for which 

 it seems desirable to keep the rest. The notes refer to the 

 Brent Valley Bird Sanctuary, Geology in East Lincolnshire, 

 Opium, Esperanto, Aviation, Shetland, Yeast, Microbes, Elec- 

 trical Notes, Birds' Eyes, and the Hull Museum! These are 

 illustrated by borrowed blocks, badly produced. There are 

 also reviews of books, which presumably must have been sent to 

 this journal for review long before anybody knew there was 

 going to be such a journal in existence. 



A WARNING. 



We have said thus much, and have given these details, in 

 the hope that before any other societies commence publishing 

 they will thoroughly consider whether they will be able to 



1912 Mar. I. 



