Vol. 2J Whole Number 78. DECEMBER 24th, 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 of 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 ; "olden, of the 

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

 Hammond and Sp'iuki, of New York, and a considerable number of well-known scientific experts. IT CLAIMS, WI I H 1 KU1H, 1 U u^^r* 

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

 IN THE UNITED STATES DEVOTED TO SCIENCE. 



