Comments & Queries

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On the Cover are details of illustrations from some of Darwin's works. On the front is, from top to bottom, "Sketch—Section of the Cumbre or Uspallata Pass," from Geological Observations, 3rd edition (New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1891), Plate I; "Skulls of Pigeons viewed laterally," from The Variation of Plants and Animals under Domestication, 2nd edition (New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1876), I: 172; and "Drosera rotundifolia," from Insectivorous Plants (New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1896), 4. On the back cover is a photograph of Darwin from the Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, LC-DIG-ggbain-03485.

Changes at VS: This semester we have had the privilege of working with two excellent undergraduate interns, Kathryn Smith and Laura Collins.

Kathryn Smith is a junior majoring in English and minoring in art history and Spanish. She has really enjoyed learning more about academic publishing—especially observing the qualities that academic journals look for when selecting papers. She would like to thank Ashley, Melanie, Maddie, and Amy for this great opportunity.

Laura Collins is a senior majoring in English. She agrees with Charles Kingsley that the perfect editor should be strong in body; able to haul a dredge, climb a rock, turn a boulder, walk all day; know how to swim for her life, to pull an oar, sail a boat and ride the first horse which comes to hand; and finally she should be a thoroughly good shot, and a skilful fisherman and, if she go far abroad, be able on occasion to fight for her life. Laura would like to thank the VS staff for all they have done to help her develop these and other skills.

As always, Victorian Studies thanks the Indiana University Honors College, without whose generous support our internship program would not be possible.