Our Annual Greeting. 



A NOTHER year has passed and another volume is complete — 

 a volume containing many facts and thoughts which 

 could have been ill-spared preservation, and some which 

 will add to the progress of Knowledge. I trust it has 

 given as much pleasure to our readers as to those who have 

 produced and arranged the material from which it is constructed. 

 To the Contributors and Artists, the Editor offers his sincere 

 thanks for the support they have given in what has been to him, 

 as to them, mainly a labour of love ; and would take this 

 opportunity of tendering them his congratulations on the good 

 quality of most of their articles. He desires to express his 

 obligations particularly to those who have conducted the 

 departments of Astronomy and Science Abroad, and to others 

 who have furnished valuable series of articles upon special 

 subjects. 



JOHN T. C.A.RRINGTON. 



I, Northumberland Avenue, 

 London ; 1897. 



