Vol. 2J Whole Number 75. December 3d, 1881. [Price 10 Cents. 



Published at "Tribune" Building (Room 17), New York. 



New York Herald, June 29, 1880 : 



"Science — A Weekly Record of Scientific Progress." It is a handsome, well-printed quarto sheet ot 12 pages, with 4 additional pages for 

 advertisements serving as a cover. It counts among its list of contributors Professors Baird and Coues, of the Smithsonian Institution ; Ho'den, of the 

 Naval Observatory, Washington ; Marsh, of Yale; Wilder, of Cornell ; Young, of Princeton ; Abbe, of the Signal Office; Morse, of Salem ; Drs. 

 Hammond and Spitzka, of New York, and a considerable number of well-known scientific experts. IT CLAIMS, WITH TRUTH, TO OCCUPY A 

 HITHERTO UNOCCUPIED FIELD IN AMERICAN PERIODICAL LITERATURE, AS THE ONLY FIRST-CLASS WEEKLY JOURNAL 

 IN THE UNITED STATES DEVOTED TO SCIENCE. 



