In a letter to the Editor, Oliver Wendell Holmes, the genial “Autocrat of the Breakfast Table,” says: “I am much pleased with the Young Scientist. It makes me want to be a boy again.”
“It is a little publication, calculated to call out and educate all the latent ingenuity and thirst for knowledge which the youthful mind possesses, and we hope it will win its way into every household in the land.”—[Scientific Press.
“We have never seen a periodical, designed for youth, which came nearer to our ideal of what such a journal should be.”—[Canadian Pharmaceutical Journal.
“The Young Scientist is one of the choicest publications for juvenile minds in this country. Every page treats on subjects of importance to young and old, portrayed in a clearly comprehensive manner, which at once interests the young idea in its careful perusal.”—[Lapeer Clarion.
“It seems to fill the bill.”—[Newport Daily News.
“It is pleasing to note that its youthful subscribers will not be misled by clap-trap advertisements or advertisements of patent medicines, which will not be received at any price. The Young Scientist is doing good work in setting its face against this class of humbugs.”—[Manufacturing and Trade Review.
“The work is a copiously illustrated monthly, and is full of practical hints that will instruct and amuse the young folks.”—[Industrial School Advocate.
“A small but elegant and very instructive monthly.”—[Pittsburg Chronicle.
“Contains the best possible reading for the young of both sexes.”—[Ottawa Journal.
“We can safely recommend this magazine as one of the very best publications for the young folks.”—[The Independent, Fenton, Mich.
“This journal occupies a new field, and is needed to put the minds of our youth on the right track to secure a correct understanding of the nature of things.”—[Wayland Press.
“It is ably edited by John Phin, who will make a large place in the heart of the rising generation, if he persists in his venture. We hope his success in the field will be equal to the article furnished—first best.”—[Sunset Chimes.
“The articles are written in a popular, readable style, and profusely illustrated.”—Akron City Times.
“The Young Scientist is excellent in conception, and well designed to amuse and instruct young people.”—[Chicago Evening Journal.
“The Young Scientist is a handsome monthly magazine, each number containing about 16 pages, handsomely illustrated. It will supply a place which has been heretofore unoccupied. The copy before us comes fully up to the promise of the prospectus.”—[The Times, Iroquois, Mich.
“It is a journal which should be in the hands of both young and old, and is a great benefit to the young scientist as well as the advanced professor. It is a thousand times more valuable than the dime novel series, so much read by boys. Parents would do well to have it in their households.”—[The Iron Home.
“This publication is a new launch, and it is very gratifying to witness the ableness which pervades its pages.”—Amherst Free Press.
The object of the Journal of Microscopy is to diffuse a knowledge of the best methods of using the Microscope; of all valuable improvements in the instrument and its accessories; of all new methods of microscopical investigation, and of the most recent results of microscopical research. The Journal does not address itself to those who have long pursued certain special lines of research, and whose wants can be supplied only by elaborate papers, which, from their thoroughness, are entitled to be called monographs rather than mere articles. It is intended rather to meet the wants of those who use the microscope for purposes of general study, medical work, class instruction, and even amusement, and who desire, in addition to the information afforded by text-books, such a knowledge of what others are doing as can be derived only from a periodical. With this object in view, therefore, the publishers propose to make the Journal so simple, practical and trustworthy, that it will prove to the advantage of every one who uses the microscope at all to take it.
ILLUSTRATIONS.—The Journal will be freely illustrated by engravings representing either objects of natural history or apparatus connected with the microscope.
TRANSACTIONS OF SOCIETIES.—The American Journal of Microscopy is not the organ of any Society, but it gives the proceedings of all Societies whose officers send us a report. As the Journal is devoted wholly to Microscopy, and is in good form and size for binding, no better medium can be had for preserving the scientific records of any society. Matters of mere business routine we are frequently obliged to omit for want of room.
EXCHANGES.—An important feature of the Journal is the exchange column, by means of which workers in different parts of the country are enabled, without expense, except for postage, to exchange slides and materials with each other.
During the first two years of its existence, the subscription to the American Journal of Microscopy was only fifty cents per year, but at the request of more than two-thirds of the subscribers, the size of the Journal has been doubled, and the price raised to
Four copies for three dollars. Those who wish to economize in the direction of periodicals, would do well to examine our clubbing list.
Foreign Subscribers.—The Journal will be sent, postage paid, to any country in the Postal Union for $1.24, or 5 shillings sterling per year. English postage stamps, American currency or American postage stamps taken in payment. In return for a postal order or draft for £1 5s., five copies of the Journal will be furnished and mailed to different addresses. Make all drafts and postal orders payable to John Phin.
BACK VOLUMES.—We have on hand a few copies of Vols. I and II, bound in handsome cloth cases, which we offer for $1 25 each. Vols. I and II, bound, and the numbers of Vol. III, as issued, we offer for $2.50. We can no longer supply complete sets of 1876-7 in sheets. To those who wish to examine the journal, we will send ten odd numbers for 25 cents.
The Journal of Microscopy, from its very nature, is a visitor to the very best families, and its value as an advertising medium has therefore proved to be much above that of average periodicals. A few select advertisements will be inserted at the rate of 30 cents per line, nonpariel measure, of which twelve lines make an inch. Address