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The Conductor can, with some degree of pride, state also, 

 that this work has met with the most favourable recep- 

 tion ou the continent, in the principal journals of which it 

 is frequently quoted ; and that among the number of his 

 foreign correspondents he can mention the celebrated Vol- 

 TA, Brugnatelli, Pictet, Van Mons, Lametherie, 

 and several other eminent men, who have occasionally sent 

 him letters and articles of information. 



If any further testimony of the respectable light in which 

 this journal is held were wanting, it might be added, that it 

 has been honoured with communications from some of the 

 jnost celebrated philosophers and literary men of the united 

 Jcingdom, to whom the Proprietor considers himself under 

 great obligations, and whose future favours he earnestly 

 solicits, 



The Philosophical Magazine being thus established on 

 the firmest foundation, its obvious utility and the favoura- 

 ble opinion entertained of it by men of science, the Pro-» 

 prietor will close this short address by assuring the public 

 that it is his determination to spare no pains or expense to 

 preserve the reputation it has acquired ; and that, in conse^ 

 quence of some arrangements he has lately made with his 

 friends in different parts of Europe, he has reason to hope 

 that he shall be enabled to enhance its value by opening 

 new sources of information, which will increase its utility 

 ^d render it still more worthy of protection. 



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