Abstract
IN the career of a journal, as in the life of a man, stages are met from which it is appropriate to take a glance backward at the road traversed and to contemplate the outlook of the future. Such an epoch has been reached in the history of NATURE, the first number of which was published fifty years ago–on November 4, 1869. The circumstances which led to the establishment of this journal are described briefly by Sir Norman JLockyer in the preceding article. Men of science had felt the need for an organ devoted to their interests in common, and several attempts had been made to meet it, but unsuccessfully. It required the rare combination of scientific authority, untiring energy, wise judgment, and business aptitude to construct a platform on which investigators of the many and diverse fields of natural knowledge could put their trust, and from which descriptions of their work would command attention.
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