POPULAR SCIENCE REVIEW. THE EDITED BY HENRY LAWSON, M.D. HE Popular Science Review is the only Journal which takes up the intermediate position between the world of Science and the public generally. There are scientific journals abundant which represent each section of the scientific public properly so called; and there are literary journals which devote a certain portion of their space to scientific matters of general interest. But the only journal which is at once a sort of connecting link between the scientific world on the one side and the people-i.e. those who are beyond the limit of the scientific circle-on the other, is the Popular Science Review. Thus it contains no original theories. Until a theory, in fact, has obtained the sanction of the purely scientific world, it holds no place in the pages of the Popular Science Review; but as soon as a fact is recognized as an unquestionable scientific truth, and long before it reaches the general public by any other channel, it takes its place in the pages of the Popular Science Review. Here it is laid out in the plainest but most exact language possible, and, if necessary, is illustrated fully,—not in that claptrap style which is adopted by magazines of a particular class, but in a clear, distinct, and yet modest fashion, plainly setting forth the aims and desires of the author. The plan of the Popular Science Review is briefly as follows:-First come a number of articles illustrated by a variety of page-plates, and dealing with those questions in each branch of science which have been most recently the subject of communications to the Scientific Societies. These are invariably done by men who are at once the most eminent and representative in the several branches of science to which they belong: we refer to the names of Contributors as a proof of this. Leaving the Original Articles, we come next to the Reviews. These are short, but as a rule they are to the point; and they generally contain notices of every scientific book which has been published during the quarter. Finally, we come to the Scientific Summary. In this we find a very perfect record of the principal work done at home and abroad in the following various branches :-Archæology, Botany, Geology, Palæontology, Chemistry, Mineralogy, Microscopy, Metallurgy, Mining, Physics, Photography, Zoology, Comparative Anatomy, and Medicine. This department is divided amongst a number of men, and generally may be said to put the general reader au courant with the progress of science at home and abroad during the quarter which has elapsed previous to publication. it Thus, altogether, the Journal furnishes an amount of scientific information, in a popular and yet exact form, which cannot be found in any other English periodical. Vols. I. to XI., Sets in Numbers, £5. 15s. 11 vols. cloth, £6. 14s. Popular Science Review, Vol. 1 contains: Corn. By Prof. J. Buckman, F.L.S., The Crown Animalcule. By P. H. The Lowest Forms of Life. By James Iron and Steel. By R. Hunt, F.R.S. F.R.S. The Breath of Life. By W. Crookes, The West Coast of Equatorial Africa. The Great Comet of 1861. By J. Breen. Caverns and their Contents. By Prof. The Lowest Forms of Life. Illustrated. Cotton. By Dr. Lankester, F.R.S. Grass. By Prof. Buckman, F.L.S. Il- The Reflex Theory. By G. H. Lewes. Optical Phenomena of the Atmosphere. The Phosphorescence of the Sea. With The Sun and Solar Phenomena. With Light and Colour. With a Coloured The White Clover. By Mrs. Lankester. The Human Heart. By Isaac Ashe, The Great Exhibition of 1862. The Britannia and Conway Tubular Primitive Astronomy. With two The Physics of a Sunbeam. With The Contents of Caverns (concluding Popular Science Review, Vol. 2 contains : The British Oak. Two Page Illustrations. By Prof. Buckman, F.L.S., F.G.S., &c. Tubifex Rivulorum, the Red Worm of our Rivers. With a Coloured Plate. Barmouth and its Scientific Attractions. The Electro-plating Process (conclud- Notes of the Exhibition of 1862. The Mistletoe and Parasitic Plants. By The Vinegar Eel. By Jabez Hogg, F.L.S. The Eye of the Ox and its Microscopi- Mars. By James Breen, F.R.A.S. With Our Fresh-water Polyzoa. By Rev. The African Lion in its Native Haunts. The Human Skin. By Isaac Ashe, M.B. The Furniture Woods of Commerce. Fossil Birds. By S. J. Mackie, F.G.S. History of a Beech-tree. By Harland The Antiquity of Man. By J. R. Leif- On the Physical Geography of the The Telescope. By James Breen, F.R.S. Rotifera or Wheel Animalcules. Part On the Morphology of Vinca minor Colour Blindness. By Jabez Hogg, PopularScience Review, Vol. 3 contains: Photographic Printing and Engraving, Fresh Air. By E. Lankester, M.D., Microscopic Fungi Parasitic on Living On the Physical Geography of the Ansted, M.A., F.R.S. By S. J. Diseased Pork, and Microscopic Worms in Man. By John Gamgee. Пlustrated. Bodily Work and Waste. By Francis T. Bond, M.D., B.A. (Lond.), F.C.S. Greek Fire: its Ancient and Modern Notes on Earthquakes. By Rev. W. S. On Printing Telegraphs. With Co- Herrings and Herring Fishing. By the On Proper Clothing. By E. Lankester, On the Absorption and Radiation of Pre-historic Dwellings. With Tinted F.A.S.L. The Aniline Dyes. With Page of Silk On the Action of Manures. By Baron The Old Red Sandstone Fishes of Eng- Oysters and Oyster Culture. By the Popular Science Review, Vol. 4 contains: Extraordinary Ships. By S. J. Mackie, Good Food. By Edwin Lankester, M.D., On the Origin of Local Floras of Great Metamorphism. By Prof. D.T. Ansted, Morphological Peculiarities of Linaria Recent Investigations into the Natural What is a Stimulant? By Francis E. The Source of Heat in the Sun. By of Intestinal Worms. By T. Spencer Waves of Heat and Waves of Death. Origin of our Kitchen Garden Plants. The Geology of Mineral Springs. By Train-signalling in Theory and Prac- Extract of Meat. By Charles Boner. The Physical Phenomena of other On the Difficulties in Identifying many of the Lower Kinds of Algæ. By J. On the Oldest known Fossil (Eozoon Balloon Ascents and their Scientific On the Highest Magnifying Powers Darwin's Observations on the Physio- What is a Tonic? By Edward Divers, The Eruption of Etna. By S. J. Mackie, Inside the Eye: the Ophthalmoscope and its Uses. By Ernest Hart, Oph- Is the Whitebait a Distinct Species ? On the Means of Communicating be- Atlantic Telegraphy. By Robert Hunt, On Pure Water. By Edwin Lankester, On the Nature and Diagnostic Value of On Lake Basins. By Prof. D. T. Ansted, On the Microscopic Anatomy of an Photography, and some of its Applica- Popular Science Review, Vol. 5 contains :— Insects Injurious to the Turnip Crops. By Rev. W. Houghton, M.A., F.L.S. On Ozone in Relation to Health and Glaciers and Ice. By W. F. Barrett. On the Phenomena of Motion, Sensi- On the Construction and Use of the On the Volvox Globator. By J. Brax- Entozoon-like Bodies in the Muscles of Raised Beaches, and their Origin. By On Milk, and its Adulteration. By Augustus Voelcher, Ph.D., F.C.S., &c. The Amoeba: its Structure, Develop- On the Solfatara and Fumaroles in the The Graphotype Process. By the Editor. Illustrated. By Hydræ or Fresh-water Polypes. On the Exhaustion of our Coal. By On Hybridization among Plants. By Sun-force and Earth-force. Richardson. By Dr. The Eruption of Santorin. By Prof. On the Movements of the Diatomaceæ. By Townshend M. Hall, F.G.S. The Bone Caverns of Gibraltar, Malta, Notes on Lophopus crystallinus. By Genesis or Parthenogenesis? By H. E. Modern Views of Denudation. By How to Work with the Telescope. Popular Science Review, Vol. 6 contains :— On Growth of some of the Algæ. Illus- The Planet Mars in January, 1867. By On Water-filters. By Edward Divers, Recent Discoveries in Insect Embryo- On the Struggle for Existence among F.R.S. Paraffin Lamps and their Dangers. By An Attempt to Approximate the Date By Jupiter without his Satellites. Fitzroy Weather Forecasts. By G. F. New Electro-Magnetic Machines. By Illustrated. The Botany of a Coal-mine. By Wm. The Microscope in Geology. By David Why the Leaves Fall. By Maxwell T. A Message from the Stars. By Robert On the Planariæ of our Ponds and Ventilation and Ventilators. Editor. Illustrated. By the Physics of the Brain. By B. W. Richardson, M.A., M.D., F.R.S. Popular Science Review, Vol. 7 contains:— The Common Fresh-water Sponge The Science of a Snow-flake. By Robert Hunt, F.R.S. Illustrated. The Food of Plants. By Prof. Church, M.A., F.C.S. The Gems and Precious Stones of Great Britain. By J. Morris, F.G.S. Illustrated. Is the Fresh-water Sponge (Spongilla) How to Dissect a Flower. By M. C. The Polariscope and how to Work Free Nematoids. By H. Carlton On the Animals which are most nearly The Study of Chemical Geology. By Plants known by their Pollen-grains The Great Eclipse of August 17, 1868. On the Range of the Mammoth. By What is Wine? By August Dupré, Iron Shields and Iron Forts. By S. J. By Rev. W. Houghton, M.A., F.L.S. The Life of a Seed. By Maxwell T. |