our "Notes and Queries" and "Answers to Correspondents" so complete. Although we have no permission to quote the names of those to whom we refer, and who possess a European reputation in their own special branches of Natural History, we cannot refrain from according to them our thanks. Should there be any of our numerous contributors who feel aggrieved that their communications have been inserted, or their queries answered, we trust at this genial season, when friendships are cemented, and follies and failings forgotten, that they will extend to us full and free pardon for offences which have been unintentional. So sudden and almost overwhelming did the correspondence speedily become, even before the machinery could be brought into working order, that we are more surprised at not oftener hearing the voice of complaint, than we should have been at a postman's deluge of angry letters. Let this volume be accepted as an earnest of our anxiety to supply month by month a healthy four-penny-worth of "Gossip;" and with the assurance that it shall be our aim to progress and improve, we cordially wish our friends, contributors, and subscribers, all the world over—
"A Happy New Year!"
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