The popularity of science at the present time is borne
ample testimony to by the appearance of a new monthly magazine devoted to its interests. It is entitled Science Progress, and we learn from the title-page that it is " conducted " by Mr. Henry C. Burdett, and "edited" by Mr. J. Bretland Farmer. The con- tributors to the second number—that now before us—hail from London, Munich, Oxford, and Cambridge, and we should say from the character of their papers, that it is written by men of science for men of science. The ordinary layman, at all events, will not be able to take a very keen interest in such topics as "Researches in Proteid Metabolism," " Vermes, aelenterata, and Protozoa," or "The Study of Adaptation in Plants." But even such a layman will perceive the skill and care with which these papers are written. Should such a magazine as Science Progress be successful, its success will be a fresh and remarkable evidence of the specialisation that is going on in literature.
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