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CIRCULARS <3 
New-York, March 2, 1829. 
Sir—Several gentlemen in this city have formed an Asso- 
ciation for the purpose of sending a suitable person to collect 
objects in Natural History in some of the more remote parts 
of the United States ;+to which you are invited to contribute: 
provided the plan meets your approbation. 
The route to be taken is the following :—From N ew-York, 
y sea, to New Orleans; thence to Red River; remain at 
Natchitoches until July ; then proceed to the Arkansas Ter- 
ritory, and if the country should be healthy, proceed up the 
Arkansas River as far as possible ; shoul any time remain 
before the setting in of cold weather, examine the country 
between that River and the Missouri. At the beginning of 
Collections are to be made in the department of Botany, 
(dried plants, roots, and seeds,) animals of all kinds, (except 
those common in the Atlantic states,) particularly birds, in- 
sects, and shells; and geological and mineralogical specimens, 
e collections, when received, will be divided by the sub- 
scribers, or their proxies, into as many parcels as there are 
ares subscribed for, with the addition of two shares for the 
Collector, all the parcels being made equal in value, and dis- 
tinguished by a number, Lots will then be drawn for them. 
n case any subscriber who wishes plants only should draw 
animals, or vice versa, he can exchange the one with the oth- 
er with some other subscriber. 
9. *Carpenter’s Saratoga Powders, for making Congress 
Spring or Saratoga Waters.—There is perhaps scarcely an 
: * Inserted by request. 
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