THE YOUNG NATURALIST. 



67 



* lead to something worth publishing. Your j 

 help in this way will be very valuable. 

 With next number we enter upon a 



• new year. Let it be a year of work, a 

 j year of painstaking, a year of earnest ness 

 I in following this pursuit, which, as we have 



often said, gives more than most things, 

 [pleasure unalloyed. But our space will 

 not pennit any further enlargement on 

 the topic and we must reluctantly close 

 our remarks, which we do with the usual 

 wish at this season to one and all of 

 you, " A Merry Christmas and a Happy 

 New Year." 



CORRESPONDENCE. 



To the Editor of the "Young Naturalist." 



Dear Sir, — My brother, a medical man, is 

 practising in Maruya, New South Wales, and he 

 sent me a very cuiious incident about an egg which 

 I write below, thinking it might interest you, as I 

 can vouch for its accuracy. 



Yours faithfully, 



Thos. W. King. 



<; A curious incident which I think might 

 interest you and some of your friends, happened a 

 fortnight ago, and, not having ever heard or read 

 of a like circumstance before, I send you the par- 

 ticulars. On the nth February my wife, after 

 mixing some corn-meal for feeding the fowls, 

 missed her wedding ring from her finger, and, 

 after a fruitless search, gave it up as lost. On the 

 8th April, while engaged eating an egg at break- 

 fast with me, she felt the egg spoon grate upon 

 something hard at the bottom of the egg below 

 the yelk. Imagine our astonishment when, on 

 further investigation, we found the lost ring firmly 

 fixed by membraneous adhesions to the bottom of 

 the egg. I may further state that the egg was of 

 extra size, and was laid the day before (April 7th.) 

 Perhaps some of your friends might enlighten me 

 as to how the ring got inside the egg, and whether 

 it was posssble for the ring to have remained inside 

 the fowl for seven weeks.— H. Kirwan-King, 

 M.B.. Maruya, New South Wales." 



NOTICES. 



The Young Naturalist is published in time to 

 reach subscribers by Saturday Morning in each 

 ! week. It maybe had in the ordinary way through 

 any Bookseller, or POST FREE, as under :— 



Single Copies, i^d. each; is. 6d.per Quarter? 

 6s per Annum. Three Copies to one Address 3d., 

 or 3s. 3d ., per Quarter ; 1 3s. per Annum. 



Monthly Parts, in Coloured Wrapper, 6d. each. 

 Secretaries of Societies, Schoolmasters, &c.,who 

 will act as Agents, will be supplied at iod. per 

 dozen copies. 



Subscribers for one year in advance will have 

 the Special Plates beautifully coloured by hand. 

 Communications for insertion should reach us 

 one week in advance. 



All orders or other communications must be 

 sent to John E. Robson, Bellerby Terrace, West 

 Hartlepool, S.L. Mosley, Primrose Hill, Hudders- 

 field ; or to Bowers Brothers, Publishers, 

 146, Walworth Road, and 3, Fairford Grove, Lower 

 Kennington Lane, S.E. 



The Young Naturalist may also be had as 

 under : — 



Bishops Auckland— J. P. Soutter, Clyde Ter- 

 race. 



Bradford— J. W. Carter, 16S, Priestman Street, 



Carlisle Road, Manningham ; W. Whitham, 88, 



Godwin Street. 

 Dewsbury — Carter Lodge, Thornhill. 

 Hartlepool— C. Z. Woods, Church Walk. 

 Huddersfield— Parkin, Cross Church Street ; 



Ernest Denton, Mold Green ; Albert Shaw, 



Crossland Moor. 

 Liverpool — B. Cook, Junr. & Co., 2i,Renshaw 



Street. 



Wakefield — C, S. Purchas, 81, Kirkgate. 

 West Hartlepool — Mr. Hoggett, Church 

 Street. 



Wellingborough — Charles Drage, High Street. 

 Birmingham, Montagu Brown, Broad Street. 

 London, E. G. Meek, 56, Brompton Road, and 



Castle & Lamb, 133, Salisbury Square, Fleet 



Street. 



ORDERS OF INSECTS. 



(Continued from Page 61.) 



We have now arrived at the last stage in the cycle 

 of Insect Kfe — the imago, or perfect insect. We 

 purpose now to make a few general remarks on 

 the perfect insects, as we have done in the previous 

 stages, and next week to begin by explaining the 



