Communication, ^c. 175 



COMMUNICATION FROM THE PRESIDENT OP THE GEOLOGI- 

 CAL SOCIETY OF LONDON, AND OTHER NATURALISTS. 



The editor lays before his readers, with a just pride and entire 

 satisfaction, the following communication, from the President of 

 the Geological Society of London, and other distinguished Natu- 

 ralists. 



London, June 18, 1831. 

 My Dear Sir, — We, your undersigned friends in England, are 

 happy to learn that you propose to establish a new periodical 

 work in the United States, which, in embracing all subjects con- 

 nected with the natural history of America, is to be specially de- 

 voted to the accumulation of geological facts and phenomena. 



Knowing your zeal and ability, we have great hopes that a 

 work so directed, will meet with every encouragement in your 

 country, and we are certain that it cannot but be of service to 

 the cause of science in general. 



We shall at all times be desirous of aiding you with any com- 

 munications in our power, and we subscribe ourselves. 



Yours very faithfully, 

 Roderick Impey Murchison, President of the Geologi- 

 cal Society of London. 

 Davies Gilbert, Vice President Royal Society. 

 W. D. Conybeare, F. R. S. F. G. S. &c. 

 A. Sedgevvick, F. R. S. F. G. S. &c. Fellozo of Trin- 

 ity College, Cambridge. 

 Wm. BucKLA^D, D. D. F. R. S. &c. &c. Christ Church 



College, Oxford. 

 George Bellas GREE^ouGH, F. R. S. &c. &c. 

 Charles Stokes, F. R. S. &-c. &c. 

 P. S. — I cannot refrain in particular on my own part, from 

 expressing the desire which I feel for the appearance of the pro- 

 posed pubhcation, as likely to conduce, in the most important 

 points, to the effective progress of geology ; to ascertain in detail 

 the suite of formations, and the series of organic remains distin- 

 guishing them in a new continent, so widely separated from the 

 old, and embracing such a range of various climate : so to com- 

 pare the phenomena with those of Europe, has ever appeared to 

 me the most material desideratum in geology ; for we may be 

 sure that any analogies which are common to localities geogra- 



