The TOtlH€ HATOE^UST: 



A Penny Weekly Magazine of Natural History. 



No. 139. JULY 8th, 1882. Vol. 3. 



HOW TO INCREASE 

 OUR CIRCULATION. 



ONE of our earlier articles was 

 addressed to working men, and 

 many of our correspondents since have 

 expressed their desire that we should 

 endeavour to induce larger numbers of 

 working men to take an interest in 

 natural science. But then the diffi- 

 culty is to know how we are to win 

 their ear ; how we are to reach them, 

 so as to show them the pleasures and 

 advantages we would fain have them 

 share with us. Many of our subscribers 

 and readers are, we know, working men. 

 But outside of those that this^ or any 

 other natural history magazine, can 

 reach, are tens of thousands of working 

 men, and among them are doubtless 

 many that could take an interest in 

 such subjects, and that doubtless would 

 do so if oidy they could be approached. 

 We can only express our willingness 

 to do anything that can be suggested 

 to approach them. ^lany pursue natu- 

 ral history from their youth up. They 

 acquire a taste for some branch of it 

 early in life, and this being one of those 



appetites that are increased with a good 

 supply of suitable food, instead of 

 being satiated by it, they continue to 

 follow it as they grow up, and always 

 with additional zest and pleasure. 

 Others, on the contrary, never seem to 

 be awakened to the beauties of nature 

 till they are men, perhaps past middle 

 life, or even going down the hill. \et 

 even these may render good service to 

 the cause of science ; and there is no 

 period of life, short of dotage, where 

 much pleasure can not be had by those 

 who seek it in the lap of nature. We 

 do not wish to run down the hobby of 

 any one else and insist that our own 

 is the only animal of the kind that 

 ought to be mounted ; all we ask is 

 that ours may have a trial in the race, 

 and that if you like its paces, and can 

 enjoy the company among which it 

 leads you, that you will give it a share 

 of your leisure time. Our magazine 

 was commenced specially to assist 

 beginners, — not young people only, but 

 young j/K^/t'wY*, whatever age they might 

 be. None know our shorlcoiniiigs 

 bettter thai\ we do ourselves; none 

 know better than we do, how far wt 



