THE 



AMERICAN JOURNAL 



OF 



SCIENCE AND ARTS, 



CONDUCTED BY 



Prof. B. SILLIMAN and B. SILLIMAN, Jb 



OF TALE COLLEGE. 



To the Friends of Science, and more particularly to the Subscribers 

 and Patrons of the American Journal of Science and Arts, from 

 the Editors. 



Amlri beg T leave t0 P^sent to your consideration the following statement. The 

 BiPnh i al bas been sustaincd during twenty five years; a generation of 



orhrin ! 8 i m0St P assed awa y» whi,e death and misfortune have nearly cancelled the 

 manv fv • cn P tlon » wh *ch has however, from time to time, been recruited by 

 (affe t i° naI Dames ' but the severe pecuniary vicissitudes of the last six years, 

 Blerf m ^ u° 9 aS We re £ ret to Iearn > our literary cotemporaries,) have again crip- 

 mihrJ- subscri P tion Jis *> which is now barely sufficient to pay the expenses of the 

 L • ' on of tne Journal ; and any considerable additional diminution might place 

 ^existence in hazard. 



n two former periods of exigency, a frank disclosure was made to our snhscri- 



humT D • ° tbe P ub ^ c > and we hesitate not to do it again, deeming it no personal 

 ^nation, but an act of fidelity to the honor and the welfare of our country. 

 W e t !" erned y * s at hand, and it has been heretofore applied with success. 

 r ji e the jefore respectfully invite each of our subscribers, and each of the sub- 



scribers 



v a j ' t0 re *ain, if agreeable, one dollar or more for compensation, and to remit the 



eed, and which we have 

 country favors our over- 

 personal friends and to all 



ce and the name to us or to our agents, as may be preferred, under the post- 

 onerc/ 8 ^his measure — simple, definite, practicable, and we hope not 



carr j " s ~~would now prove, as it has done twice before, entirely sufficient, if fully 

 olh e r ° ut ~T es P ec iaUy, seconded, as it will be, by our own personal exertions, in 

 jj n . T? ct,orjs and ways ; for we cannot admit the idea that our country will re- 

 tort*? k S i0 ° g accredited Journal of Science, which for so many years, has corn- 

 took w* h «t res P ectful attention of Europe as well as its own ; and we therefore 

 en<w , 0pe and confidence for the aid which we n« 



tare T ode " e 



the fri ^ aDove invitation is, ol course, extended to our pe 



Thi T °* science » whether heretofore subscribers or not. 

 their a , urna! embraces in its plan he entire circle of the Physical Sciences, and 

 i s no a RP "cations to the arts. It w begun in July, 1813 ; the forty sixth volume 

 G*its m P re3s > and we have paid between sixty and seventy thousand dollars 

 e xpen! Upport ' * ts umited subscription, the great expense for illustrations, and often 

 ferther^h technical composition, prevent the editors from reducing the price, any 

 tainpri J . to do justice to their mail subscribers. The work could not be sus- 



Whu ? t wer price * 

 au » ^ . e !t ," as P^mpted original American efforts, it has been sustained by them ; 



ji, n £ de voted to important national and univer I interests, it is in that charac- 

 h rch U an< ^ a ? cred * ted » hoth at home and abroad. It has elicited many valuable 

 rt ty r , s and discoveri- ; its miscellaneous department bas presented a great va- 

 i8 tiIli 2 Jkt 0p / cs °S general interest ; and a large part of the work is not only quite 



^v*oid i int€res *ing to the reading public, whether scientific or not. 

 °f Popula^*' - al ' P ersona i» and party interests and prejudices, it forgoes the support 

 r ar feeling, and relies solely upon the intelligent and the patriotic. 



