CONTENTS:— The London Commissariat.—Food and its Adulterations.— Advertisements.—The Zoological Gardens.—Rats.—Woolwich Arsenal.— Shipwrecks.—Lodging, Food, and Dress of Soldiers.—The Electric Telegraph.—Fires and Fire Insurance.—The Police and the Thieves.—Mortality in Trades and Professions.—Lunatic Asylums. LONDON: ROBERT HARDWICKE, 192, PICCADILLY. =Price 2s. 6d. Illustrated by the Best Artists.= THE Popular Science Review, =A QUARTERLY MISCELLANY= =Of Entertaining and Instructive Articles on Scientific Subjects.= EDITED BY HENRY LAWSON, M.D., _Professor of Physiology in Queen’s College, Birmingham, and one of the Lecturers on Natural Science under the “Science and Art Department of the Committee of Council on Education.”_ THE POPULAR SCIENCE REVIEW is, as its name implies, a Review conveying scientific knowledge in such a simple and popular form, that all who read may understand. There is at the present day a numerous and increasing class of intelligent readers who, without being scientific, are nevertheless greatly interested in scientific progress. They would willingly become acquainted with scientific truths, but are too often deterred from the pursuit of such studies by the abstruse or technical language in which these truths are conveyed. In order to meet the requirements of this portion of the community, every available means has been adopted to procure the most accurate information on all subjects of which the journal treats. No pains or expense has been spared to secure the most skilful artists to illustrate its pages. Each number contains systematic, instructive articles (illustrated when needful) on subjects connected with some of the following sciences, viz.:— ASTRONOMY, | GEOGRAPHY, | MINERALOGY, BOTANY, | GEOLOGY, | PHYSICS, CHEMISTRY, | METALLURGY, | ZOOLOGY, ETHNOLOGY, | MICROSCOPY, | &c. &c., and SCIENCE applied to the Arts, Manufactures, Commerce, and Agriculture. LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS.