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lichens ; but they are for the most part technical, and suit¬ 
ed only to specialists in the lines which they represent. 
Several periodicals of a general literary character maintain 
departments treating of out-door life, but they are merely 
departments—incidental to the purpose of the publishers 
to attract the widest possible circle of readers by providing 
a little for all. 
NaturK Study, from the beginning, has adhered to its 
single purpose of quickening the observing faculties and 
adding to the pleasure of walks abroad for old and young. 
Its contributors have been trained and practical observers, 
who have found the facts themselves of sufficient interest 
without the high coloring of fancy or fiction which may 
well be termed nature painting , and which too often dis¬ 
courages at the outset the student who finds little in sim¬ 
ple, everyday nature corresponding with the pictures por¬ 
trayed by writers who evidently cared more for the effect of 
their style than for their facts. 
The increase in the size of the magazine will make it 
possible to extend the range of topics during the coming 
year. The writers already so well known to Nature 
Study readers will continue their pleasant tasks, and sev¬ 
eral new contributors will be added to the list. With the 
help of this efficient corps of nature lovers, Nature 
Study, no longer an untried venture, and cheered by the 
success already achieved, will go forward in the way upon 
which it entered in the beginning, ‘ ‘ devoted to the en¬ 
couragement of the study of Nature in her varied aspects— 
of the rocks, the birds, the flowers, and all the multitude 
of living things that crawl or swim, or walk or fly.” 
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