408 Miscellanies. 
of pharmaceutical nomenclature and preparations, and thus greatly to 
facilitate the free interchange of experience among our physicians 
respecting the effects of medicines, as well in their simple form, as 
in officinal combinations and common extemporaneous prescriptions. 
8. Antiquities.—We earnestly invite the public attention to the 
following important notice of AMERICAN ANTIQUITIES. 
Mr. Editor,—Having just received a letter from the secretary of 
the Royal Society of Northern Antiquaries, relative to the work on 
America, upon which they have been for many years engaged, and 
deeming that the information it contains may be interesting to those 
who have subscribed* for the work, and may be the means of indu- 
cing others to do the same, I have made extracts from it, and you will 
oblige me by giving publicity to them through the Journal. 
I would also reiterate the request of Prof. Rafn, that the periodi- 
cals and journals of the day would copy the announcement here 
made, in order that the very limited encouragement thus far offered 
by us to the Danish Society, may be extended to a degree commen- 
surate with the importance of the publication, and the labor by them 
bestowed upon it. 
The subject of the early history and antiquities of America, is 
daily attracting more and more attention; and among the pbiloso- 
phers and antiquarians who have enlisted in the cause, those associ- 
ated with and belonging to the Society established at Copenhagen 
stand pre-eminent for their laborious investigations, their long contin- 
ued and unwearied inquiries, their deep and extensive researches, 
and more than all, for the success which appears to have crowned 
their efforts. 
Many seem to think that all which can be satisfactorily known in 
relation to this matter, is embodied in the second chapter of Wheaton’s. 
History of the Northmen: 
But as interesting as the intelligence there communicated is, the 
account is a brief one, and made subsidiary to his main design ; the 
distinguished author having for his object the elucidation not of 
merican history, but that of the Danes and Normans. 
All that relates specially to this country, is embraced in less than 
eight octavo pages, whereas the Society’s work will contain several 
undred quarto pages. 
* Yale College has ordered a copy for its Library. 
