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KIDD'S LONDON JOURNAL. 



TO CORRESPONDENTS. 



E. F.— Pray send your name and address. How can we 

 write when these are wanting 1 



"W. B. Harding. — You ask questions requiring immediate 

 replies, and withhold your address ! Your birds will 

 die, perhaps, before you read these remarks. . 



" A Well-wisher," Kensington, has surely subscribed 

 himself by a wrong name. He stands " alone" in his 

 remarks. Let us hope his feelings will be more kindly 

 when he knows us better. 



E, T.— Our space is so circumscribed, that "Fugitive 

 Poetry" can only be admissible under very peculiar 

 circumstances. "We are already overwhelmed with 

 similar "kind offerings." This "reply" will suffice 

 for all the writers. Their favors have merit, and 

 would be readily available in a Monthly Magazine. 



New Subscribers, and Casual Readers, are referred to 

 the Leading Article in our First Number for the 

 detailed objects of the London Journal : to these 

 we shall rigidly adhere. 



Private Letters. — Of these we daily receive such 

 immense quantities, that we must really beg the 

 writers to excuse our not replying to them. Our time 

 is more profitably occupied. All vacancies, as they are 

 called, are filled up. Let this general answer suffice. 



Correspondents sending in any " facts" connected with 

 Science or Natural History, are requested in every 

 case to append their names and places of abode. In no 

 instance, however, will their names be published with- 

 out their express sanction. 



Notice to Subscribers and Others. — It having been 

 deemed expedient, to meet the views of the Trade, that 

 this Journal should always be published by anticipa- 

 tion, Contributors and others will be so kind as to 

 bear in mind that they must give us an extra " week's 

 grace," and wait patiently till their favors appear. 



All persons who may send in MSS., but which may not 

 be " accepted," are requested to preserve copies of 

 them, as the Editor cannot hold himself responsible 

 for their return. 



To obtain this Paper without any difficulty, our readers 

 need only order it to be sent to them by any of their 

 local Booksellers or Newsvendors. It is published 

 simultaneously with all the other weekly periodicals. 



KIDD'S OWN JOUBNAL. 

 Saturday, March 20, 1852. 



Another month has rapidly rolled away ; 

 and its successor heralds in, this day, our 

 Twelfth Number and Third Part. We shall 

 now soon be in our " teens." 



Many pleasing changes in the prospects 

 of this Journal have taken place since our 

 last Monthly Address to our distant friends, 

 — andjthese are mainly attributable to them- 

 selves. It is true we may have had some 

 little to do with them, as regards certain 

 new features of interest in our Paper ; but 

 we claim no merit on that score. If we 

 want aid, we must try and deserve it. 



It would appear that the candor with 

 which we have stated from week to week the 

 many unfair difficulties which have beset us, 

 has enlisted the best sympathies of very 

 many of our subscribers, — more particularly 

 those residing in Scotland and Ireland, where 

 our presence is most heartily and enthusi- 

 astically welcomed. 



A lady, quite a stranger to us, writes (from 

 Edinburgh) that, "as promises are easily 

 made and as easily broken." she has proposed 

 and carried out the following scheme, — viz. : 



collected within a few days among her own 

 immediate connection, six weekly subscribers, 

 who each hope to obtain other six sub- 

 scribers by their own individual exertions, 

 — thus carrying out the wholesome principle 

 at compound interest among their friends 

 and acquaintance (let us hope) ad infinitum. 

 Quid f amino, nonpossit! or, freely rendered 

 — Victory ! thy name is Woman. 



Our kind patroness then suggests^ that 

 " if every one of your subscribers were to do 

 the same thing (and, she adds, they must 

 surely be hike-warm if they do not), the 

 success of your Journal would be secured 

 in a single week, and your mind rendered 

 happy." This is quite true. What womanly 

 tact do we see here ; and how much fine 

 feeling ! It is positively more welcome than 

 the offer of a well-filled purse. 



There yet, however, remains one thing to 

 be done ; and that is, to order the local book- 

 seller to procure the required number of our 

 Paper regularly, and to see him enter the 

 order in his Books, before leaving him. If 

 he refuse to procure them, our London Pub- 

 lisher (Mr. Berger) will forward them direct 

 by post. Any numbers of our Journal, 

 not exceeding 1 lb. weight, will now travel 

 free for the ail-but- nominal cost of 6d. post- 

 age- . . . 



Our friends continue to express then- 

 wonder that a Periodical like ours, so much 

 wanted and so much liked by the public, 

 should be so unfairly opposed. Nor can they, 

 any more than ourselves, offer any valid 

 reason for it. It is admitted by all lovers of 

 Natural History, that a work like this, when 

 a careful index shall have been prepared, 

 will be indispensable for Reference. 



All difficulties in Manchester we are 

 happy to say, are now overcome. This is 

 attributable to the efficient and kindly aid 

 of Mr. Abel Heywood, Oldham-st. 



In Edinburgh, too, and in Dublin, we 

 are going a-head. Mr. John Menzies at 

 the former, and Mr. Edward Milliken at 

 the latter, are immortalising us daily by 

 their joint efforts. In Glasgow, our friends 

 are legion ; yet have we no efficient agent 

 there. Will Messrs. Murray and Son 

 kindly number themselves among our body- 

 guard ? Then shall we be nobly represented 

 in these three great cities. 



Let us now only add the hope, that the 

 example set by our "Lady Bountiful" in 

 Edinburgh may be faithfully followed all 

 over the known world ! 



To meet the views of many much- valued Cor- 

 respondents, who attribute great importance to 

 the formation of an Index for our Work— we 

 purpose issuing at au early day, the First 

 Quarterly Volume, neatly bound, with a Title- 

 page, Index, &c. The idea is an admirable one, 

 and it will give immense satisfaction in the country. 



