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on the subject received both from subscribers and from book¬ 
sellers, we feel perfectly satisfied that it has been caused solely 
by the circumstance of the periodical being printed in the 
country. Without considerable assistance from the London 
publishers, a Magazine has at the present day little chance of 
success ; but with the potentates of Paternoster-How in 
opposition, failure is inevitable. 
The work, it may be urged, might even now be removed to 
London ; but we reply that the error has been discovered too 
late, for the trade-opposition, once in existence, is not likely 
soon to subside. That there is room for a work of similar 
character to The Naturalist, and that it would be properly 
supported by the public—in absence of the opposition with 
which we have contended—we, however, still believe, and 
fully hope to see the plan carried into effect at no distant date. 
We shall not, in compliance with the time-honored custom 
among our editorial brethren, conclude by thanking subscribers 
and correspondents for their assistance to The Naturalist ; 
for they have, we trust, been actuated by a sincere wish to 
advance and diffuse Natural Science, and not by the desire of 
conferring upon ourselves individually any supposed favour. 
Gratified with the amount of benefit we have already been 
enabled to render to the cause, and hoping at a future day to 
have it in our power still further to advance it, we for the 
present take leave of our fellow-labourers in the same field. 
August 26, 1839. 
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