Our Annual Greeting. 



TVj OW iluu anotlicr vokiinc of SciENCE-GossiP has been issued from 

 its independent offices at iio Strand, the Editors may justly 

 congratulate tiie contributors upon the continued excellence of its 

 contents. In doing so, we would thank them all, and especially those 

 who have furnished the serial articles of scientific value. We are 

 grateful for assistance to our honorary departmental editors for 

 Astronomy, Geology, Microscopy, Mollusca, and Physics, whose 

 columns have been so interesting to students in those branches of 

 science. We would add our thanks also to Mr. Dennett and Mr. 

 Shillington Scales, for their very useful chapters for beginners in 

 Astronomy and Microscopy, respectively. 



A new feature will commence in the coming volume, by the 

 addition of a department for Experimental Chemistry. This will be 

 conducted by Mr. Harold M. Read, F.C.S., a gentleman with special 

 knowledge in that department of the science, and professionally 

 engaged as adviser in the making of apparatus used in Experimental 

 Chemistry. This innovation has been arranged for our magazine, in 

 consequence of frequent requests from readers, for more attention to 

 the subject. We shall be pleased to have articles and notes from them 

 for consideration. It is hoped to add other improvements to our 

 pages during the coming year, including a department for Photography 

 as applied to science and generally. 



We venture to ask our readers for further support in extending the 

 circulation of Science-Gossip by bringing it before the notice of their 

 friends and correspondents. Continued improvements mean increased 

 expense ; therefore an enlarged circulation indirectly benefits those who 

 help us to obtain the means necessary for the many features that could 

 be added to our pages. 



1 1 o S/niiid, Luiidoii. 

 JSIay 1 900. 



