First issue of Nature

Nov 4, 1869
Top of pageA WEEKLY ILLUSTRATED JOURNAL OF SCIENCE
"To the solid ground Of Nature trusts the mind which builds for aye."
-- WORDSWORTH
'The objective which it is proposed to attain by this periodical may be broadly stated as follows. It is intended, First, to place before the general public the grand results of scientific work and scientific discovery; and to urge the claims of science to move to a more general recognition in education and in daily life.
'Secondly, to aid scientific men themselves, by giving early information of all advances made in any branch of natural knowledge throughout the world, and by affording them an opportunity of discussing the various scientific questions which arise from time to time.'
Top of pageTable of contents
- Goethe: Aphorisms on Nature by Prof. Huxley, F.R.S
- On the Fertilisation of Winter-Flowering Plants by A. W. Bennet, F.L.S (With Illustrations)
- Protoplasm at the Antipodes
- The Recent Total Eclipse in America by J. Norman Lockyer
- Newman's British Moths by W.W. Dallas, F.L.S (With Illustrations)
- Our Book Shelf
- Science-Teaching in Schools by The Rev. W. Tuckwell
- The Late Professor Graham by Prof. Williamson, F.R.S (With Portrait)
- Meeting of The German Naturalist and Physicians at Innsbruck. By A-Geikie F.R.S
- Triassic Dinosauria. By Prof. Huxley, F.R.S.
- Correspondence:- The Suez Canal. T. Login, C.E.
- Notes
- Astronomy - Astronomical Congress at Vienna
- Chemistry - Abstracts of Papers by Bettendorff, Paterno, Peligot, &c.
- Physics - Magnus on Heat Spectra
- Physiology - Pettenkofer on Cholera, &c.
- Societies and Academies
- Diary
- Books Received

