ORNITHOLOGIST'S TEXT-BOOK- 177 



ON THE 



ESTABLISHMENT OF A NEW MAGAZINE 



OF 



NATURAL HISTORY. 



It is with no small pleasure that we inform our 

 readers that in all probability a magazine devoted 

 to Natural History will shortly be commenced. It 

 must be obvious to every one that such has long 

 been a desideratum in the English language. For 

 although we have Loudon's Magazine of Natural 

 History, and the Zoological Journal* yet neither 

 of these are sufficiently comprehensive to suit the 

 present state of the science : — the one treating 

 entirely of habits, and the other as exclusively of 

 classification, nomenclature, &c. Now we should 

 wish in the forthcoming periodical to see every de- 

 partment of the science equally attended to, as 

 there can be no doubt but that this is essential to 

 the progress of Natural History. 



It is certainly a great disgrace to Britain that 

 only two periodicals on this interesting and useful 

 study are in existence in the whole kingdom, when 

 our continental brethren possess so many. We 

 look forward to the time when Britain shall be able 

 to boast of one or more periodicals devoted to 



* This work has since been discontinued. 



