29 JANUARY 1870, page 20

Poems On Natural History.* Tuts Is, Perhaps, One Of The

drollest legacies ever left to the world by a man of science. Dr. Daubeny was a great chemist, and as it is truly said in the introduction, his whole life was devoted to science......

The Naval Operations In The Paraguayan War.*

TOWARDS the end of 1863, Captain Kennedy was ordered out to the South American station to take command of Her Majesty's gunboat Spider,—a tiny little craft carrying one......