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The Naturalist is dead. This issue is our last, at any rate for the present. 

 We regret extremely the stern necessity which will thus sever the pleasant 

 and agreeable connection that has existed during the past three years between 

 ourselves and our contributors. We heartily thank them for tlieir support 

 and contributions, and shall be glad to hear from them, personally at any 

 time, although our official connection with them now ceases. They have 

 helped us in a good work, and kept us well supplied with useful and in- 

 teresting information for the pages of our serial during the few years of its 

 existence, and the editors will always ?iavc one thing to look back upon with 

 pleasure : that short as have been their labours, they have been the means 

 of publishing many useful and interesting facts which but for the existence 

 of the Natamlid would probably never have been recorded. Mr. Baker's 

 Eeview of the British Eoses, — M. Deseglise's Observations on the Classifi- 

 cation of the Genus Rom, — Prof. Crepin's Considerations on Species, — Mr. 

 Gibb's Mustelida3 of Northumberland, — ]Mr. Miull's Botany of Malbam, — 

 Mr. James Britten's Spontaneous Exotics, and Plora of High AVycombe, — 

 Mr. Saxby's Catalogue of the Birds of Shetla,nd, — Mr. Gissing's Flora of 

 Wakefield, — Mr Wilson's Xotes on Hi/'pnum adancurii and its Allies, — Prof. 

 Chas. Martins' Vegetation of Spitzbergen, the Alps and the Pyrenees, — and 

 a host of others, are papers which have furnished real knowledge to the 

 scientific world, and of which the editors of the Naturalist may well feel 

 proud : whilst Mr. Gunn's Ornithological and Entomological Papers, — Mr. 

 Inchbald's Papers on Gall-insects, and many others of a similar (character, 

 cannot fail to have been read with interest and instruction by all who have 

 perused them. So far then as their own labours are concerned, the editors 

 have no cause to be ashamed of their three volumes, but rather to coni^ratu- 

 late themselves that they have been the humble means of contributing useful 

 matter to the already existing stock of Natural History knowledge. But 

 now these pleasant reminiscences will be all tha& is left for them, for the 

 plain truth is that the circidation is not suf&cient to pay the expenses of its 

 production. We are unable to account for this, unless it be that for the 

 limited circulation which a joimial of this class must of necessity have, the 



