205 + in Address. to the People, §c. 
It is extremely unfortunate for those engaged in researches 
concerning the objects of this class, that so many of them have 
been disseminated abroad. To study them successfully, it is 
necessary that they should be compared, and for this purpose 
they must be brought together. The managers hope, there- 
fore, that such persons as now hold, or may hereafter possess 
any of these antiquities, will dispose of them to the Society, 
instead of sending them out of the country. In this way, and 
in this only, can a valuable collection of these unique curiosi- 
ties be formed. 4 
The remaining class comprehends the weapons, utensils, 
trinkets, and other manufactures of our neighbouring Indians, 
ef which the managers hope, in a short time, to be able to 
exhibit a great variety. : 
he curiosities of this country are the primary, but not the 
exclusive objects of the Society. It proposes in due time t 
na gallery of paintings, and thus offer to the lovers and 
cultivators of the fine arts, a few of those models which are 
absolutely necessary to the gratification and improvement of 
their taste. 
The managers will be happy, moreover, to receive from 
such of their eastern, brethren as are desirous of contributing 
to the amelioration and advancement of a new and remote 
community, any of the productions of foreign countries that 
may be calculated to promote this object; and will, in returt 
cheerfully exchange any specimens of the curiosities of this 
soy which they can spare without injury to their collec 
They will, if required, pay a reasonable price for every 
article which may be deemed worthy of introduction into the 
museum. They intend to publish, annually, a catalogue 
all the more valuable donations which may be made to 
museum, with the names of the donors. 
Wiuiam Sreet, >Manage® 
Danie. Drake, 
Cincinnati, Sept. 15th, 1818, 
