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THE YOUNG NATURALIST, 



However, we are still willing to do 

 what we can to further so desirable an 

 object, and we will lay our plans before 

 our readers in an early number, prob- 

 ably the next, and in the meantime 

 we should be glad to hear from anyone 

 who has anything to suggest. 



We hope our readers will continue 

 to give us their support, and not only 

 that, but also induce others to support 

 us as well, for we are vain enough to 

 think our paper has been of some use, 

 not only to beginners but to experienced 

 hands. The papers on " Bearing Lepi- 

 doptera from the Egg," and others 

 weknowhavebeen of some service, and if 

 each of our subscribers could get 

 another, we should be able to still 

 further increase the usefulness of the 

 magazine. 



While we state that it has been of 

 service to other people we must not 

 forget to tell you that those parties 

 who have derived most benefit from it 

 are ourselves. Not because we have 

 made a large profit out of it, for quite 

 the contrary is the case, agents have 

 failed upon our hands, and the early 

 part of its career was very expensive. 

 But we told you we had had to work, 

 and the very fact of our working has 

 given us the benefit. The benefit we 

 have derived from writing the " Orders 

 of Insects," answering queries, and 

 naming specimens sent to us for that 

 purpose, has amply repaid all the 

 labour we have bestowed. 



Some of the best naturalists in the 

 the land have favored us with their 



I communications in the past, and we 

 ! have every reason to hope and believe 

 1 they will do so in the future, and from 

 i beginners too we expect some accounts 

 of what they are doing. It is not 

 sufficient to capture an insect, and 

 place it in an allotted space in your 

 I cabinet, tell other people what you are 

 i doing so that they may go and do like- 

 wise if they choose. 



During this volume, and at a very early 

 1 date, it is our intention to commence 

 ; the first of a series of Handbooks on 

 I British Natural History. The first 

 \ work, which will consist of several 

 ! volumes, and extend over some time, 

 I will be on Birds and their Eggs, illus- 

 trated by hand-painted plates of every 

 j species, and its varieties ; we have 

 ; already obtained the promised assistance 

 ! of an eminent Fellow of the Zoological 

 Society, and we have every reason to 

 . believe that the work will be superior 

 to any other of the same class. Before 

 | this is completed others will be begun, 

 ! and if we should live to complete the 

 whole series the Young Naturalist will 

 I leave a monument that will be of ser- 

 | vice for many long years to come. 



CORRESPONDENCE. 



A friend of mine having lately returned 

 from America has presented me with several 

 rare insects, but as he does not know the 

 names I should feel obliged if any one resid- 

 ing in this district would kindly name them 

 for me. — James McIntosh, i8, Brainerd 

 Street, Tue Brook, Liverpool. 

 [Apply to Mr. Gregson. See our back page. 

 -Eds.] 



