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Excerpt from Natural Science, Vol. 4: A Monthly Review of Scientific Progress, January-June, 1894 But it is not our only object to retail the results of investigation, and to summarise the news of the world Of Natural Science. We do not merely wish to review scientific progress; but we h0pe to assist it. And in this hope we have polished our shield bright, and set our lance in rest. May all Shams and bugbears, when they see themselves mirrored as they truly are, sink to the nothingness of which they are made; and may the more enduring obstacles to progress be, if not shivered, at least a little Shocked by our onset! Of course this will gain us enemies as well as friends; but that is the more evidence of success, and, after all, we hope our enemies will not be very bitter, since we attack principles not persons, measures not men. It is in pursuit of this aim that we open our columns to those whom authority seems to treat too hardly, even if we do not always agree with them ourselves. It is not always the popular View that is the right one, and the history of Science Shows too many instances of folly becoming wisdom, for even an editor to feel his judgment infallible. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.