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THE YOUNG NATURALIST. 



story, entitled " The Four Seasons." 

 which will be begun in an early num- j 

 ber. Articles on various subjects for j 

 the instruction of beginners will also 

 appear as needed. 



With regard to our plates we have j 

 in-ranged to issue one every month 

 during next year, which will enable us 

 to complete the figures of the British 

 Butterflies, and also illustrate whatever 

 else may appear to re juire a special 

 plate. The subscription price for next 

 year's volume will remain as before, 

 viz., (3s. post free, but we propose to 

 make an alteration in the arrangement 

 respepting colored plates. Those who 

 pay in advance for the year, and who 

 desire to have the plates colored, will 

 be charged 8s. for the year, but those 

 who send fur single colored plates will 

 be charged 3d. each. We trust this 

 arrangement will be satisfactory. 



We would like to say a word or tw o to 

 those who do not remit so promptly as 

 we could desire, but it is delicate sub- 

 ject. We once read an anecdote 

 i American, of course) of a number of 

 old looking gentlemen who met at an 

 hotel. After supper I hoy agreed that 

 each should tell the others to what 

 cause they attributed their longevity. 

 One always went to bed sober, another 

 had a cold bath each morning, and so 

 on. until it came to the turn of the 

 youngest looking. To their surprise 

 they found he tv*ts several years older 

 than any one else present, nor was 

 their surprise lessened when he said. 



Well s gentlemen, I have gone to bed 

 drunk and 1 have gone to bed sober* 



I have had cold baths, and I have done 

 without. I have done this, and I have 

 not done that, but the one thing to 

 which [ attribute my youthfumess is 

 this, / always paid punctually for my 

 pap&rh" Some of our subscribers 

 will perhaps take the hint. Even a 

 penny paper is not established without 

 considerable outlay, and if those who 

 so kihly gave us their names as 

 subscribers so long ago, would now 

 remit the amount of their subscription, 

 we would be obliged. 



SPECIAL NOTICE. 



Our friends have had great trouble hitherto 

 in procuring the Youxg Naturalist through 

 a Bookseller : the firm who supplied the 

 trade at first being too far from the centre for 

 collectors to go to Walworth for odd copies of 

 a penny paper. We now have pleasure to 

 announce that we have arranged with 

 Messrs. John' Kempster & Co., 

 St. Bride's Avenue, 



Fleet Street, 



London, E. C. 



who will in future supply the trade; and we 

 trust our readers will have no further difficulty 

 in procuring copies through a local Bookseller. 



Cuttle-fish.— -Many interesting facts 

 relating to the North American cuttle-fish 

 have been recently laid by Professor Verrill 

 before the Connecticut Academy. The banks 

 ->f the Newfoundland coast would seem to be 

 the headquarters for the Cephalopods. One 

 was seen on the beach at I ance Cove, Trinity 

 Bay, still alive and struggling desperately to 

 escape. It was borne in by a " spring tide" 

 and a high inshore wind. In its struggles to 

 get off it ploughed up a trench or furrow about 

 30 feet long, and of considerable depth, by 

 the stream of water which it ejected with great 

 force from its syphon. When the tide receded 

 it died. On careful measurement, its body 

 was nearly 1 1 feet long, its short arms were 12 

 feet in length and much thicker than a man's 

 thigh, and its tentacular arms were each 33 

 feet long. 



