Nature has celebrated its jubilee in a special number containing
articles by eminent men of science on the work of the past fifty years. Sir Norman Lockyer, whose portrait is given with the number, describes how, with the enthusiastic support of the late Mr. Alexander Macmillan and of Huxley, Tyndall, and Hooker, he founded the famous weekly in 1869. Four other writers in this number, Sir Archibald Geffie, Sir E. Ray Lankester, Professor Bonney, and Canon Wilson, also con- tributed to the earliest issues of Nature. Hard scientific work is evidently conducive to longevity. The articles, taken together, form a valuable sketch of the history of modern science, which has made great advances in the past half-century and is still developing. We must add that Nature, edited with a meticulous care for accuracy and impartiality, has played an honourable part in the swift progress of natural science, since every new idea and every new discovery has been promptly noticed and judiciously criticized in its pages. We offer Nature, its editors and publishers, our warm congratulations.
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