A Penny Weekly Magazine of Natural History. 



No. 153. OCTOBER 14Tir, 1882. Vol. 3. 



THE NEXT VOLUME. 



AETER much consideration we are 

 at length able to announce the 

 course to be followed in the fourth 

 volume of the " Yowig Naturalist^ 

 As already stated, the weekly issue 

 will cease with the numbers for the 

 current month, and on 1st December 

 will appear part 37, being the first of 

 the next volume. The price will be 

 sixpence monthly, or six shillings per 

 annum post free. The new volume is 

 not intended to vary much from those 

 that have preceded it. The papers by 

 the editors on British Birds, their 

 Nests and Eggs, and on British Moths 

 will be continued from time to time. 

 Mr. Gregson promises a continuance 

 of his " Old Entomological Localities." 

 Mr. Soutter will contribute his inter- 

 esting botanical papers at intervals. 

 Excursions and rambles will be given 

 as usual. Notes, Captures, and Ob- 

 servations will be continued. ]t is 

 also suggested that queries should be 

 inserted, not to be answered by the 

 editors, but left for correspondents to 

 reply to. The monthly parts will be 



stitched in a neat cover, to which all 

 advertisements, exchanges, and busi- 

 ness announcements will be transferred, 

 so that the body of the magazine will 

 be entirely reserved for readable matter. 

 This will meet the wishes of many 

 subscribers who have considered that 

 the frequently repeated advertisements 

 spoiled the appearance of the bound 

 volume. Besides these changes we 

 propose to issue each month a coloured 

 plate, and we trust that this will prove 

 one of the most attractive features of 

 the new volume. Our plates up to 

 the present lime have been produced 

 under considerable disadvantngc. Every 

 one knows that it is not possible to 

 produce a plate that will be equally 

 good whether coloured or plain. But 

 we have had that difficulty to contend 

 with, and our plates could not be made 

 so perfect as plain plates from the fact 

 that some of them had to be coloured ; 

 and they could not be made so perfect 

 as coloured plates from the fact that 

 some of them had to be issued plain. 

 This will now be avoided, and they 

 will be prepared specially for colouring, 

 and all will be issued so, without extra 



