As our journal is too small and too low-priced to claim the attention of news dealers, we are compelled to rely almost wholly upon subscriptions YOUNG SCIENTIST. Bent direct to this office, and as the journal is new A Practical Journal for Amateurs. PUBLISHED MONTHLY. PROSPECTUS. The subject matter with which we shall chiefly concern ourselves is very distinctly set forth in the title of the Journal. The following are the details of the several departments, and will serve to explain our aims and claims: PRACTICAL SCIENCE.-Simple methods of performing experiments, and of constructing homemade apparatus, will occupy much of our attention. In this department directions for making collections, for preserving specimens of Natural History, and for forming and managing aquaria, etc., will find a place. AMATEUR MECHANICS.-Directions for making designs and working drawings, and for working with lathes, carpenter's tools, scroll saws, etc.; and for soldering, cementing, varnishing, polishing, etc., special attention being given to new methods and processes, where these are found to be real improvements. The various operations mentioned will be applied to the production of special articles of practical utility. NEW BOOKS.-New scientific and practical books will be duly noticed, so that those who desire complete and recent information on any subject may know where to get it. CORRESPONDENCE.-In this department we intend to place our readers in communication with each other, and in this way we hope to secure for every one just such aid as may be required for any special work on hand. EXCHANGES.-An exchange column, like that which has been such a marked success in the Journal of Microscopy, will be opened in the YOUNG SCIENTIST. Yearly subscribers who may wish to exchange tools, apparatus, books, or the products of their skill, can state what they have to offer and what they want, without charge. Buying and selling must, of course, be carried on in the advertising columns. ILLUSTRATIONS.-The journal will make no claims to the character of a "picture book," but wherever engravings are needed to make the descriptions clear they will be furnished. Terms Fifty Cents per year. Postage stamps of low denominations (1, 2, and 3 cents) received at their full value. and untried, many persons would no doubt like to examine a few numbers before becoming regular subscribers. To those who wish to make a "trial trip" with us we will send the first four numbers for FIFTEEN CENTS, which is less than the regular rates, as we feel assured that those who make the trial trip will in most cases become regular subscribers. Special Offer to Old Subscribers. Not only for the purpose of increasing our subscription list, but as an acknowledgement of the good feeling which prompted so many to support a new and untried enterprise, we will send the YOUNG SCIENTIST free to any of our old subscribers who will send us two new names and One Dollar. That is to say, we will, to each of our subscribers for 1878, send three copies for $1. Advertisements, 30 cents per line. To avoid delay and mistakes address all communications to "THE YOUNG SCIENTIST, Box 4875, New York," and make all checks and orders pay. able to John Phin. On the succeeding page we give a list of the prominent articles which have appeared in the first nine numbers of the YOUNG SCIENTIST. Among the articles which will appear at an early date are: Complete Directions for Modeling in Clay and Plaster. These will be splendidly illustrated, and are so clear and simple that any intelligent boy or girl can follow them. Engraving and Ornamenting Glass. How to cut monograms and ornaments on tumblers, wine glasses, and glass plates, by means of appar atus, which any boy or girl of a mechanical turn can make and use. Simple Objects for the Microscope. Monthly Guide to the most Interesting Objects in the Heavens, that can be seen with the naked eye or telescopes of low power. How to Make a Balloon. How to Study Botany. How to Study Entomology. The Turning Lathe; hints and instructions for amateurs. WHAT WE HAVE DONE. The following is a list of the most important articles that have appeared in the YOUNG SCIENTIST during the past nine months: menting Labels to Metal; Stand for Cut Flowers; Cure for Burns; Another House Fired by a Milk Can; Case Hardening; An Instructive Experiment. AUGUST.-How to Make an Herbarium; How to Study Entomology; *An Interesting Experiment; *The Archer-Fish; To Prevent Day Dreaming; Canada Balsam Microscopes; Paste Eels; *A New Form of Stage Forceps; Articles in Preparation; Crystallization; How to Make an Eolian Harp; Hints on Filing; Iridescent Glass; Indelible Indian Ink; Hatching Alligator Eggs. SEPTEMBER.-*How to Make Indian Canoes; How to Make an Herbarium; Simple Lessons in the Art of Photography; *A New Form of Frog Plate; A Collecting Microscope; Pond Hunting; Rules for Using Glue; A Story of Science; A Liberal Offer; Hints on Filing; Mucilage. WHAT PEOPLE SAY OF US. "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. Illustrated articles are marked *. JANUARY.-Makeshift Apparatus-Its Successes and Failures; General Rules to be Observed in Using Cements; College Workshops; Our Aims; Aiding the Swindlers; Liquefaction, of Oxygen; The Art of Sharpening Edge Tools; *Penny Microscopes; *A New Slide for Microscopic Objects; Self-Lighting Lamps; Home-made Telephone; Lead in Paraffin Oil; Poisoned by Cheap Jewelry; Silk-Worms at Large; Literature vs. Gymnastics; Long-lived Errors; Iron Bird Shot; Non-Conductors for High Temperatures; the Paris Exhibitior; Plaster of Paris; Parasites on Canaries; A Go d Mucilage; Brass Lacquering; Ink that will not Freeze; Megnifying Power. In a letter to the Editor, Oliver Wendel Holmes, FEBRUARY.-Beauty and Strength; *Crossing the the genial "Autocrat of the Breakfast Table," says: Atlantic in a Twenty-foot Boat; Simple Lessons "I am much pleased with the YOUNG SCIENTIST. in the Art of Photography; Simple Legerde-It makes me want to be a boy again." main; The Toad and its Habits; Concerning Ourselves; A Good Watch for a Dollar; Will it Show the Animalcules in Water? The Art of Sharpening Edge Tools-Scissors; Mechanical Genius; *Cheap Stage Forceps for Microscopes; How to Measure the Magnifying Power of Microscopes and Telescopes; Characteristics of Various Woods. MARCH.-*How to Read a Drawing; A Good Educa-a tion; *Wood Turning Tools; What is a Diatom? Our Journal and its Influence; A New Postal Law "The YOUNG SCIENTIST is one of the choicest for the Discouragement of Science; What will publications for juvenile minds in this country. the Weather be To-morrow? Making Glass Ap- Every page treats on subjects of importance to paratus; *A Ten-Cent Galvanic Battery; A Show-young and old, portrayed in a clearly compreer of Fire; What Power Shall we Use? Paste hensive manner, which at once interests the young Eels; Plants Growing Under the Microscope; A idea in its careful perusal."-[Lapeer Clarion. Sanguinary Hoax; Finishing Microscopic Slides; Mechanical Work for Girls; Counterfeit Fossils. APRIL.-A Simple Musical Instrument; *How to Read a Drawing; *Simple Lessons in the Art of Photography; The Trial Trip; The Right to Make Patented Articles; Miss Heller's Second Sight; *The Development of Frog Spawn; Simple Hints for Beginners in Microscopy; Trichina; How to Solder; *Entomologist's Pliers; Tempering Small Steel Tools; Our Ten-Cent Battery; Iron Shot; Are Snakes Beneficial? "We have never seen a periodical, designed for youth, which came nearer to our ideal of what such journal should be."-[Canadian Pharmaceutical Journal. "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. "It is ably edited by John Phin, who will make a large place in the heart of the rising generation, MAY.-The Champion Kite, and How it was Made; in the field will be equal to the article furnishedif he persists in his venture. We hope his success A Good Ten-Dollar Boat; Our Summer Num-first best."-[Sunset Chimes. bers; Our Prizes; A Word to the Girls; *A Cheap Condensing Lens for Microscopes; A FifteenCent Battery. "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. JUNE-*How to Study Entomology; *The Champion Kite, and How it was Made; A Good TenDollar Boat; Our Trial Trip; The Study of Natural History; Something out of Nothing; *Mounting Board for Entomologists; Aquaria; A House Fired by a Milk Can; Lichen Ornaments; What Will the Weather Be? JULY.-*How to Begin the Study of Botany; How to Study Entomology; Simple Lessons in the Art of Photography; How to Study Science; How to Make an Aquarium of Microscopic Ob- "It is a journal which should be in the bands of jects; The Hydra; The Aquarium; Contributions both young and old, and is a great benefit to the for the Young Scientist; Fourth of July Pistols; young scientist as well as the advanced professor. New Photographic Process for Copying Draw- It is a thousand times more valuable than the dime ings; *How to Make a Drawing Board that will novel series, so much read by boys. Parents would not Warp; Veneering; Clothes-Moths, and How do well to have it in their households.'-[The to Get Rid of Them; A Large Musical Box; Ce-Iron Home. A CHANCE FOR EVERY BOY AND GIRL. However much may have been said against premiums, it is certain that the most successful journals have been those which have given special attention to this feature of their publishing department. Very few people like to work for nothing, but at the same time many a boy or girl will work for a nice watch, or a beautiful desk, that would not work for a mere cash commission. Attractive premiums therefore tend to increase the circulation of any journal, and thus they enable the publishers to improve the quality of the journal by distributing the expense of engravings, articles, clerk hire, typesetting, etc., over a great number instead of over a few. This increased circulation is also such an advantage to advertisers, as in some cases to more than counterbalance the cost of the premiums. And as the goods that are offered are always purchased in large quantities, they can be sold with the journal at prices considerably less than that for which they could be procured singly. The articles offered by us have been selected because they are supposed to be specially suited to our readers. They are all the very best of their kind, by well known manufacturers, and warranted perfect in every respect. lishers of the YOUNG SCIENTIST guarantee that none of these premiums can be bought at retail for less than the prices given. RULES. 5. Five specimen numbers will be furnished free to those who try to get up & club, and have sent one subscription. More may be had, by canvassers only at the rate of two cents each. 6. Many persons are deterred from getting up a club by the fear that if they do not will be wasted, or they will be compelled to get the entire number required, their labor take something they do not want. To avoid this difficulty, we have arranged so that those who do not succeed in getting the full number can pay the difference in cash. Suppose a subscriber wishes to obtain an "Family Microscope," price $15.00, and sets out to get subscribers, of which 40 are required. On trial he finds that he can get but 30, which is only three-fourths of entitled to three-fourths of the $15.00, and the required number. By our rules he is by paying the balance, $3.75, in cash, he can procure a microscope which at $15.00 is certainly as cheap as any in market. order, bank draft, or in registered letters. 7. Money should be sent only by P. O. SPECIAL PREMIUMS. With the manufacturers of the following Premiums we have made such special arrangements that we can give our young friends a great deal for very little work: The Amateur's Microscope. This Microscope has been manufactured expressly for this journal, and is equal to any $15.00 instrument in market. It has a substantial cast The pub-iron stand of new pattern; the stage is roomy, and the clips can be entirely removed so as to leave the stage free. It has draw-tube; fine Huyghenian eyepiece; concave mirror of pure silver, swinging for oblique light; glass slips and thin covers, and stage micrometer, all contained in handsome black walnut box. The objective is an achromatic French triplet and very good. Powers 40 to 250 diameters. Descriptive circular with engraving may be had on application. Will be given for 35 subscribers at 50 cents each, or will be sent by express for $13.00, 1. All lists on which a claim for a premium is made, must be so marked when sent in, but it is not necessary to state for what premium. 2. All subscriptions count, no matter from what post office or for what year they may be. We can supply all back numbers, and subscribers for 1878 or 1879 are equally acceptable. 3. Names should be sent in as fast as received. The subscribers will then receive their journals immediately, and others will be encouraged to subscribe. We will allow twelve months in which to get up the club. 4. The money must in all cases accompany the names. Family Microscope. This is a French instrument, more finely finished than the above, and with a fine movement for adjusting the focus. It has the same objectives as the Amateur's microscope, but the eye-piece is not so strong. Sells usually for $17.50. Will be given for 40 subscribers, or sent by express for $15.00. Printing Press. By special arrangement with the manufacturers, we are enabled to offer the "Bonanza Printing Press" for seven subscribers at 50 cents. The and everything necessary for printing cards. Send Bonanza press is a complete outfit, type, roller, for full descriptive circular. clasps; holds 50 pictures... 2.00 6 5.00 8.00 15.00 50 10.00 Opera-Glasses: No. 1. This is a neat instrument, No. 2. Similar to No. 1, but finer.. No. 1. A handsome set of Swiss In- No. 3. German Silver Instruments. No. 4. German Silver; a well finished, serviceable set.. 7.00 Webster's Dictionary, pocket edit'n Dick's Cyclopædia of Receipts; a large 8vo vol., containing instructions on almost every subject.... 40 Spon's Workshop Receipts... Frick's Physical Technics; an excellent manual of mechanical manipulation.. Allen's Useful Companion and Artificer's Assistant; including nearly 6,000 valuable recipes. How to Use the Microscope-Phin. 30 Shooting on the Wing.. Chemical History of the Six Days 5.00 20 -10 No. 6. Brass; well made, in case.. 1.50 No. 7. Pencil Dividers.. 40 Handsome morocco, gilt, with THE AMERICAN JOURNAL OF MICROSCOPY. BOSTON OPTICAL WORKS CHARLES STODDER, Receives and executes all orders for Micro scopes, Objectives and Telescopes made by SPECIMEN OF LETTERS. LONDON, 19th July, 1878. Mr. Charles Stodder: DEAR SIR-The Tolles 1-4th and 1-8th Objectives that were tried by Mr. Dallinger (see AMERICAN JOURNAL OF MICROSCOPY, July, 1878) were purchased by me. Both these lenses are, in my judg. ment, superior to anything made this side of the Atlantic. Still I am wanting a fine higher power lens, and if there is anything better to be had in the world, I think Mr. Tolles is the man to do it. J**** E*****, M. D. AUGUST STENDICKE, Optical Instruments, 329 East Twenty-third St., New York, Would inform those who desire Optical Instruments, and parts of instruments (such as Eye-Pieces, ObjectGlasses, Astronomical Instruments and Astronomical Eye-Pieces, Prisms of Crown and Flint Glass, Spectrum Apparatus, etc.) that he is prepared to furnish any. very moderate prices. thing in this direction of the very best quality and at STUDENT'S SPECTROSCOPES for $60; and MICROSPECTROSCOPES and NICOL'S PRISMS, for Polarizing Apparatus. All kinds of auxiliary Optical Apparatus mate to order. Send for Price Lists. FOR SALE. The Microscopical Outfit of a gentleman lately deceased. It includes A Fine ROSS STAND. A ZENTMAYER GRAND AMERICAN. Browning's MICRO-SPECTROSCOPE. Price list may be had by addressing JOHN PHIN, 176 Broadway, New York. Liverpool, London and Globe INSURANCE COMPANY, New York Office, No. 45 William Street. Surplus over all Liabilities.. 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