﻿Field and Forest 



A MONTHLY JOURNAL 



DEVOTED TO THE NATURAL SCIENCES. 



Vol. II.— JULY 1876.— No. 1. 



Volume Second. 



With a kindly greeting to all our readers, we present the first num- 

 ber of our new volume. The twelve numbers comprising Volume One 

 have appeared — not as regularly as we could have wished, though un- 

 der the circumstances the delay was unavoidable — and whether our 

 little enterprise has been successful or not, our friends must decide. 

 To our own mind, however, the limited space offered between its 

 brown covers, precluding the possibility of our giving a variety of 

 reading matter, has in a measure prevented the success we had hoped 

 for it ; but with the kind words of many friends in sympathy with us 

 for encouragement, together with some substantial aid, we have deci- 

 ded to push on towards complete success, and, to that end propose. to 

 enlarge its size to at least twice the number of pages given in the for- 

 mer volume, with a promise of an additional number, if contributions 

 and subscriptions shall warrant us in so doing. 



Still the Bulletin of the Potomac-side Naturalists' Club, its pages 

 will always be found to contain something of local interest, while its 

 larger size, allowing space for the record of other localities than our 

 own, will serve to give variety to its reading matter, and make it 

 doubly interesting and useful. 



We wish to make Field and Forest a journalof information for stu- 

 dent naturalists and observers in the various walks of science, and, 

 with each number to add something to our knowledge of the objects of 

 nature everywhere around us ; and as knowledge is but an accumula- 

 tion of facts, we invite all our readers to become contributors, by 



