NOTICE. 



AT length this country is regularly supplied with 

 foreign Journals ; so that it is in the power of the 

 Editor of the Annals of Philosophy to lay before the 

 British Public the scientific improvements as they are 

 made in the different countries of Europe. Already 

 several important papers from the foreign Journals have 

 made their appearance in the Annals of Philosophy. 

 The great quantity of original matter, indeed, with 

 which the pages of the Annals are filled, preclude the 

 possibility of going beyond a certain length in such 

 selections ; but the Editor flatters himself that he has 

 fallen upon a way which will enable him to make his 

 British readers acquainted with what has been done on 

 the Continent, in science, during the last eight years, 

 without taking up any extraordinary portion of the 

 Annals in the detail. This attempt will be seen at the 

 commencement of the next volume. 



It is a very singular fact, which we do not pretend 

 to explain, though the French booksellers in London 

 probably can, that the supply of Paris Journals is more 

 irregular and dilatory than of any other, though the 

 distance of that capital from our own is so small. It 

 would be a very desirable thing for the Editors of 

 scientific Journals, and for the Public in general, if 

 this defect, the result of inattention in some quarter 

 or other, were remedied. 



h'oxtmljer, 1811. 



