| Archeologia Americana. 357 
INTELLIGENCE AND MISCELLANIES. 
pty 
I. Domestic. 
1. Archeologia Americana. Transactions and collections of 
the American Antiquarian Society. Vol. 1. 1820. 
Tue American Antiquarian Society, as appears from the 
act of incorporation, was instituted at Worcester, Massachu- 
and twelve. 
diate design of the association, in the language of their pe- 
tition to the legislature of Massac husetts, is “‘ to discover 
antiquities of our own continent; and, by providing a fixed 
and permanent place of deposit, to preserve such relics of 
American antiquity as are portable, as well as to collect and 
preserve those of other parts of the globe.” From the time 
of their incorporation to January 1820, the Society had 
collected a library of more than six thousand volumes of 
rare and valuable books, some of which, it is believed, can- 
not be found elsewhere in the country. “The cabinet is 
stated to be likewise respectable. The national govern- 
ernment has ordered its laws, &c to be sent to the society ; 
it the legislature of Massachusetts has directed the Sec- 
tary of the state to furnish the institution with two copies 
of all their laws and other publications, which they now 
have or may hereafter have. The society has experienced 
like indulgence from the legislatures of most of the other 
states. or the Pp . and p of the 
cence in this instance, as vialt as in his» ble dona- 
tions to the library of the society, and in pte) as ‘has af- 
forded towards completing the eretninutiod vastly = 
2 antiq in the western country, justly entitle him 
far boscraliiiont sa among the benefactors of the tosstiee 
of the union. 
The volume mentioned above, to hee Gin in the cotiek of 
the proposed j of thesociety. After a 
historical 
