Nature 1869 №0009 (Vol. 001, 30 December)

Editorial
A Deduction from Darwin's Theory
News
The State Telegraphs
Book Reviews
The Gold Fields and Mineral Districts of Victoria
First Book of Indian Botany
Parsons on the Rose. A Treatise on the Propagation, Culture, and History of the Rose
The Romance of Natural History
Our Dumb Neighbours; or, Conversations of a Father with his Children on Domestic and other Animals
Monthly Bulletin of the Imperial Society of Acclimatation
News
A Plea for the Mathematician
Technical Education
Whence Come Meteorites?
Letters to Editor
Dr. Livingstone's Explorations
CHARLES BEKE
Food of Oceanic Animals
G. C. WALLICH
Colouring of the Cuckow's Egg
The Cloaca Maxima
Hydro-carbon Colours
T. W. FRECKELTON
MiscellanyNews
Scientific Serials
Botany
Chemistry
Mineralogy
Zoology
Societies and Academies
Miscellany
Diary