442 Me))iorial of George Brozvn Goode. 



Philosophical Magazine and Nicholson's Journal of Natural Philosophy, 

 and later, Thomson's Annals of Philosophy, the Annales de Chimie. 



The American Monthly Magazine, established in 1814 by Charles 

 Brockden Brown, was fully as much dev'oted to science as to literature, 

 and an examination of this and other journals of the early portion of the 

 century will, I think, satisfy the student that scientific subjects were more 

 seriously considered b}^ our ancestors than by the Americans of to-day. 

 The American Monthly published elaborate reviews of technical works, 

 such as Cleaveland's Mineralogy, and summaries of the world's progress 

 in science, as well as the monthly proceedings of all the scientific societies 

 in New York, and papers on systematic zoology and botany by Rafin- 

 esque. 



In 18 1 2 the American Antiquarian vSociety was established at Worces- 

 ter, and before 1820, when its first volume of Transactions appeared, 

 had collected 6,000 books and "a respectable cabinet." This was a 

 pioneer effort in ethnological science. Archseologia Americana contained 

 papers by Mitchill, Atwater, and others, chiefly relating to the aborigirial 

 population of America. The name of Isaiah Thomas, lyL.D. [b. in Boston 

 1749, d. in Worcester 1831] , the founder and first president of the society, 

 who at his own expense erected a building for its accommodation and 

 endowed its first researches, should be remembered with gratitude by 

 American naturalists. He was one of the most eminent of American 

 printers, and was styled by DeWarville The Didot of America. 



In 18 12 the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia was founded, 

 the outgrowth of a social club whose members, we are told, had no con- 

 ception of the importance of the work they were undertaking when, in 

 a spirit of burlesque, they assumed the title of an academy of learning. 



In 18 16 the Coast Survey, after years of discussion, was placed in 

 action under the supervision of Has.sler (.who had been appointed its 

 head as early as 181 1), but two years later, the work going on too slowly 

 to please the Government, it was stopped. 



The I^innaean Society of New England, established in Boston about 

 this time, was the precursor of the Boston Society of Natural Science. 



The publication of an American edition of Rees's Cyclopaedia, in Phila- 

 delphia, was begun in 18 10, and the forty-seventh volume completed 

 in 1824. This was an event in the histor}' of American science, for it 

 furnished employment and thus fostered the investigations of several 

 eminent naturalists, among whom were Alexander Wilson, Thomas Say, 

 and Ord, while at the same time it fostered a taste for science in the 

 United States and gave currenc}^ to several rather epoch-making articles, 

 such as Say's upon Conchology and Entomology. 



Mr. Bradbury, the publisher of this cyclopaedia, was the first of a 

 goodly company of liberal and far-seeing publishers, who have done nuich 

 for science in this country by their patronage of important scientific 

 publications. 



