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Sfje (Etrifor’s Jfmtall. 
H AVING- occupied the editorial chair for thirteen years, 
during which we sought to raise the standard of the 
journal, and to avoid as much as possible the merely popular 
element, we now bid our readers farewell. 
It is the intention of the publisher to make the journal a 
more popular one than it has been. Indeed he endeavours to 
reverse the position we have attempted to give the periodical, 
and possibly with better financial results. 
This, then, being his view of the matter, it becomes us only 
to take our leave, and to wish the journal every success under 
its new management. 
And in bidding adieu to past contributors, who have in- 
variably extended every effort of their pens toward the suc- 
cessful cultivation of their several subjects, we trust that they 
will overlook anything that may have seemed on our part 
like inconsiderateness. 
If they will only remember that an editorial chair is not a 
seat which is remarkable for its ease and comfort, they will 
readily make allowance for its past occupant. 
We have, we think, been fair to all sides, whilst we have given 
the most prominent position to the views of Darwin, Huxley, 
Lyell, Wallace, Hooker, &c. — to the men to whom modern 
science is most indebted for all its progress. If we have been 
unjust in our wielding of the editorial pen, we know it not ; and 
of all who may consider that we have been, we humbly ask their 
pardon. And now we say^ Good-bye, Vale, Farewell. 
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