THE 
ANTRIRICAN JOURNAL 
OF 
SCIENCE, §c. 
INTRODUCTORY REMARKS, 
Ti age in which we live is not less distinguished by a 
vigorous and successful cultivation of physical science, than by 
its numerous and impertant applications to the practical arts, 
and to the commen purposes of life. 
In every enlightened country, men illustrious for talent, 
worth, and knowledge, are ardently engaged in enlarging the 
boundaries of natural science; and the history of their labours 
and discoveries is communicated to the world, chiefly through 
the medium of Scientific Journals. The utility of such Journals 
has thus become generally evident: they are the heralds of 
science; they proclaim its toils and its achievements; they 
demonstrate its intimate connexion as well with the comfort, 
as with the intellectual and moral improvement of our species; 
and they often procure for it enviable honors and substantial™~ 
rewards. 
In England, the interests of science have been, for a series 
of years, greatly promoted by the excellent Journals of Til- 
loch and Nicholson; and for the loss of the latter, the scientific 
world has been = ee by Dr. Thomson’s Annals 
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