THE YOUNG SCIENTIST. 
69 
THE 
YOUNG SCIENTIST. 
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Our Summer Numbers. 
TTiUEING the next four months — May, 
June, July and August — we shall give 
special attention to matters connected with 
out-door studies, sports and pastimes, defer- 
ring such matters as chemical and electrical 
experiments, etc., until fall and winter. 
In the present issue we commence two 
articles which cannot fail to interest our 
readers. The first is devoted to the kite, 
and gives very fully and clearly the scientific 
principles upon which that interesting toy 
should be constructed. From this point of 
view it cannot fail to interest older readers 
than those who usually construct kites. 
The other article describes the construc- 
jtion of an easily and cheaply made, but very 
! serviceable boat. The description is so full, 
and is made so clear by means of the en- 
gravings, that any intelligent boy who can 
handle a saw, a plane and a hammer, ought 
bo be able to make one. The engravings 
and description are no fancy sketch, but are 
bhe details of the experience of one who 
actually made such a boat. The boat is 
now in use, doing good service, and the 
forms and dimensions laid down in the arti- 
cle are exactly those that were employed by 
the builder. 
We have also in preparation two series of 
articles which cannot fail to interest a large 
circle of readers. The first is, "How to 
Begin the Study of Botany," and gives 
directions and hints for the use of begin- 
ners who are anxious to commence this 
study, but have no teacher. We have also 
in preparation a series of articles of a sim- 
ilar kind on entomology, so that our young 
friends who are collecting insects will be 
able to make an intelligent study of the 
subject. 
We have also on hand other articles suit- 
able for summer days. 
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Our Prizes. 
QUITE a number of young people have 
gone earnestly to work to compete for 
the premiums offered in our March number. 
These prizes are all the very best of their 
kind, and our young friends may rely upon 
it that there will be perfect fair play. There 
is still abundant time for any active, earnest 
boy or girl to get up a good club, and stand 
a good chance for a valuable prize. This is 
more especially true, from the fact that 
some of those who have got up the largest 
clubs, being doubtful of their success, have 
preferred to make sure of the cash com- 
mission. 
A Word to the Girls. 
find that quite a number of young 
* * ladies have become subscribers to 
our journal. Of course, many of the sub- 
jects which we take up are of very little 
interest to them individually. Few of them, 
we fear, will care much for the turning- 
lathe or the vice-bench, though we know of 
several girls who have executed beautiful 
work with the scroll saw. It is true that 
some of our young lady friends take an in- 
terest in our articles for boys, because they 
learn from them how to give pleasure to 
