The Next Number, under the Title of 



ANNALS OF NATURAL HISTORY, 



Being a continuation of the " Magazine of Zoology and Bo- 

 tany/' and the " Companion to the Botanical Magazine/' 

 conducted by Sir W. J. Hooker, will be published 



1st MARCH 1838. 



At the conclusion of a Second Volume, it has been considered ex- 

 pedient to make some changes in the plan aift conduction' of the 

 Magazine of Zoology and Botany. 



When this Magazine was commenced, it was published at the 

 risk of the Conductors, and the Publisher in Edinburgh, — not as 

 a money speculation, but as an experiment, to try how far a perio- 

 dical, endeavoured to be conducted on scientific principles, would 

 succeed ; and although from the result they cannot speak very 

 highly of the encouragement which Naturalists have bestowed upon 

 it, or of their anxiety to encourage scientific papers and facts 

 unadorned and truthful, they have still had the satisfaction of being 

 able, with the assistance of their Contributors, to carry their perio- 

 dical through a second year, in a manner which tlfey believe has 

 been acknowledged to stand high in the estimation of those who 

 were inclined to dip below the surface of the subjects which others 

 pretended to study and admire ; and they have the further satisfac- 

 tion of now saying to their Subscribers, that this experimental com- 

 mencement has been the means of enabling them to continue the 

 work without risk to themselves, and with every prospect of a more 

 ample and efficient scientific support. 



The following alterations are proposed to commence with our 

 next Number : — 



The " Annals of Natural History" will be published by Mr Richard Taylor, 

 Red Lion Court, Fleet Street, London, who will superintend the general edh- 

 ing of the work. 



The arrangement of each Number will be ccntinued similar to that now fol- 

 lowed, — Original Communications and Translations, Reviews, &c. and Intelli- 

 gence. 



The Zoological Department will be conducted by Sir W. Jardine, Bart. 

 P. J. Selby, Esq. and Dr Johnston. 



The Botanical Department will be conducted by Sir W. J. Hooker, Professor 

 of Botany, University Glasgow. 



A Number will be published on the first of every Month, containing from Five 

 to Six Sheets, with plates, coloured or uncoloured, according to circumstances. 



From the intimate and almost inseparable connection of Geology with the 

 subjects contained in this periodical, papers tending to illustrate what maybe 

 termed the Zoology and Botany of Geology will be admitted. — Eds. 



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