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INTRODUCTION. 
bers should not be lost sight of, we intend to carry every thing into 
execution that will tend, in any way, to enhance the value of the 
Register, and render it an acquisition to the libraries of both the 
Amateur Naturalist, and Practical Gardener. 
Our very best thanks are due to those of our friends, who have so 
kindly interested themselves in recommending the work during the 
past year. All we can say is, that we hope to continue to deserve a 
continuance of the same favours throughout the present year, by 
making every succeeding number as interesting and complete as 
possible. According to the suggestion of a correspondent, volume 
first, page 225, we intend in our Naturalists Calendar, giving three 
or four small figures of British jilants every month, to assist those 
Botanical students in collecting a herbarian, who have it not in 
their power to purchase any other work on the subject; also to those 
who wish to study British Choncology, and have not the means of 
purchasing a work on the subject, we intend in the same calendar to 
give one or two of our land or water shells every month. This we 
think will bean acquisition to the young British Naturalist, as it will 
place something more within his reach than heretofore he was able 
to obtain. By thus using means to meet the varied wants of the 
rising race of gardeners, they will have in a few years a large store of 
knowledge, which under other circumstances, might have never 
reached their ears. Feeling conscious of the rising importance of 
the work, we intend to proceed with redoubled exertions, being as¬ 
sured that we shall meet with every encouragement from an enlight¬ 
ened public, and have our most sanguine expectations, more than 
realized. 
